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Guide to understanding a net addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on Usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of Usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of Usenet.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

The future of the aircraft industry is still the responsibility of the engineer. Money alone never did and never will create anything.

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.

With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

Sing you twelve O Green grow the rushes O.

Be gone, dull Care! I prithee be gone from me! Be gone, dull Care! Thou and I shall never agree.

Time wounds all heels.

Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London.

It's the same the whole world over, Ain't it all a blooming shame, It's the rich who gets the pleasure, It's the poor who gets the blame.

Let us be happy while we are young, for after carefree youth and careworn age, the earth will hold us also.

I love an unburnt country.

Work is prayer.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us.

Running a car can cost more than $200 per week.

Men will sit through anything as long as they think its foreplay.

There are four broad styles of Australian automobile decor - Domestic, Functional, Speed and Lair.

A heavy purse makes a light heart.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

If you have a Prime Minister like Bob Menzies who, when asked by the British for anything, was accustomed to drop his strides and say 'Go for your life', you must expect the worst.

Your King and Country need you.

A little impatience... Big plans ruined.

A wise man makes his own decisions, An ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Eloquence consists in making the speech comprehensible to the multitude and agreeable to the learned.

Of Bayard:- Knight with fear and without blame.

A great war leaves the country with three armies: An army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

Whatever you do, do it warily, and take account of the end.

At present our principal manufactures are cabbage tree hats and tomb stones.

A very gallant gentleman.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.

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Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here.

Please to remember The Fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot; We know no reason Why gunpowder treason, Should ever be forgot.

The eternal triangle.

Cricket is best described as organised loafing.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

Corrupt, adj.: In politics, holding an office of trust or profit.

All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself he'll never cease to be amused.

Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends, tell me where to get more wax.

Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love

When you love somebody, you should follow your heart. Sometimes when you are with the person you love the most, you feel confused. You dont know who you are or what you want but that is totally understandable. It is natural to let go of a part of yourself to be with that person but the important part is that you dont lose your own identity in the process!

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

Sometimes you have to risk what you want in order to get what you want.

Take heed. You do not find what you do not seek.

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.

There was an educational channel in the good old days; it was called off.

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That's what wild geese are for.

Don't live in what you can't stand up in.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

The chicken probably came before the egg because it is hard to imagine God wanting to sit on an egg.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

It is possible for your mind to be so open that your brain falls out.

Just because I have pain doesn't mean I have to be one.

The Difference I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day; I had so much to accomplish that I didn't have time to pray. Problems just jumbled about me, and heavier came each task. 'Why doesn't God help me?' I wondered He answered, 'You didn't ask.' I wanted to see joy and beauty, but the day toiled on, gray and bleak; I wondered why God didn't show me. He said, 'But you didn't seek.' I tried to come into God's presence; I used all my keys at the lock. God gently and lovingly chided, 'My child, you didn't knock.' I woke up early this morning, and paused before entering the day; I had so much to accomplish that I had to take time to pray.

You don't know, you don't understand, not for one second. You think you understand, but you don't. You just analyze everything until it barely even exists.

Those who are afraid of doing too much always do too little.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

Impossible only defines the degree of difficulty.

Anyone who angers you conquers you.

You never know until you find out.

I managed to take a beautiful soul, a blooming flower, and with some terrible power that I didn't know I possessed, ... I withered the blossom and have perhaps destroyed one of the most precious things on the planet.

Of all the people in the world, the best and the worst are drawn to a dead dog. Most turn away. Only the pure of heart can feel its pain. And somewhere in between the rest of us struggle.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it.

A Hundred Years From Now Tell me friend, what will it matter, say a hundred years from now, if you owned a thousand acres or just one old broken plow; If you bought your suits in Paris and your shoes in Italy, Or your clothes were made in patches, like th

A kiss is something that brings two people so close together, that they cannot see anything wrong with each other.

If we weren't all a little crazy, we'd go nuts.

'A preacher is a messenger,' once said a very wise man, 'and being a messenger, he has no right to change the message he carries, any more than a Western Union messenger boy has a right to change the message in the telegram that he is employed to deliver.'

We who are about to die salute you!

Out of sight, out of mind.

There is no such thing as an absolute truth that is absolutely true.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

We cannot all do great things but we can do small things in a great way.

What great accomplishments wed have in the world if everybody had done what they intended to do.

What's the definition of an accountant? Someone who would have been an actuary but couldn't pass the personality test.

Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!

The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep.

The man who really wants to do something, finds a way.

The man who really wants to do something, finds a way. The other kind finds an excuse.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

Act as if you'll live forever. Plan as if you would die tomorrow.

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Agi quod agis. Do what you are doing.

You cannot do anything by doing nothing.

My Teen Years (And all the years thereafter.) It's not enough to have a dream Unless I'm willing to pursue it It's not enough to know what's right Unless I'm strong enough to do it It's not enough to join the crowd, To be acknowledged and accepted I must be true to my ideals, Even if I'm excluded and rejected It's not enough to learn the truth Unless I also learn to live it It's not enough to reach for love Unless I care enough to give it.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Never mistake activity for progress.

Oh, you actors on the stage of life, playing the parts of that which you are not.

The more adapted you are, the less adaptable you tend to be.

Have an adequate day.

Any attempt to adjust the air conditioner will make it worse.

Anything adjustable will sooner or later need adjustment.

In some respects it is better to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them, because admiration is more tolerant.

If you are willing to admit when you are wrong, you are right.

Man to Lighthouse Keeper: I don't understand. The horns sound and the lights flash but the fog still comes.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

The fire of adversity will melt you like butter, or temper you like steel. The choice is yours.

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

When people get to rubbing you pretty hardjust remember that's the treatment that puts a polish on things.

Christ's stumbling while carrying the cross reminds us how close the Lord will push us to our absolute limits.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Adversity is the springboard to great achievement.

Every adversity has within it the seeds of an equivalent benefit.

Words of an Unknown Martin Handcart Company Pioneer. We suffered beyond anything you can imagine and many died of exposure and starvation, but did you ever hear a survivor of that company utter a word of criticism? Not one of that company ever apostatized.

When trade grew slack, and notes fell due, The merchant's face grew long and blue; His dreams were troubled through the night With sheriff bailiffs all in sight. At this his wife unto him said 'Rise up at once, get out of bed, And get your paper, ink, and pen, And advertise to all good men.' He did as his good wife advised, And in the papers advertised. Crowds came and bought of all he had; His notes were paid, his dreams were glad; And he will tell you to this day, How well did printer's ink repay.

Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit.

Dont be troubled if the temptation to give advice is irresistible; the ability to ignore it is universal.

If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of free advice from folks who didn't succeed either.

Never give advice.... A wise man won't need it. A fool won't heed it.

Never give advice. The ignorant wont heed it and the wise dont need it.

Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.

When you give advice, remember that Socrates was a Greek philosopher who went around giving good advice. They poisoned him.

Nothing is more frequently ignored than good advice accompanied by bad example.

If you happen to meet a crocodile, don't stick your head in its mouth. Every now and then, and who knows the reason, people ignore this advice, which is sad because they die, but very stupid because they were warned. They had a choice. The moral of the story is this you can't afford to be stupid. There are crocodiles.

Just to be tender, just to be true, Just to be glad, the whole day through, Just to be merciful, just to be mild, Just to be gentle, and kind, and sweet, Just to be helpful with willing feet, Just to be cheerful when things go wrong, Just to drive sadness away with a song, Whether the hour is dark or bright; Just to be loyal to God and right, Just to believe that God knows best, Just in his promises ever to rest Just to let love be our daily key, That is Gods will for you and me.

When parents make a practice of hurting and humiliating their children, they do permanent damage. There is a big difference between describing what you dont like or dont stand for, to a child, and your resulting to name-calling, sarcasm, and cutting rem

If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else whos now in the same phase you may have just completed. Maybe thats what its all about after all.

You are much too intelligent to be affected by flattery.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.

A wise man will never rust out. As long as he can move or breathe he will be doing for himself, his neighbor, or for posterity. Almost to the last hour of his life Washington was at work; so was Newton. The vigor of their lives never decayed. No rust marr

Enjoy the pleasures of old age as long as you are young.

'To what do you attribute your great age?' asked the reporter. 'I dont rightly know yet,' replied the old-timer. 'Im still dickering with two breakfast food companies.'

The passing years make junior wonder, Why dad gets grayer and mom gets blonder?

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

By the time a man gets old enough to watch his step he isnt going anywhere.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Grow up not old!

We do not stop playing because we are old. We grow old because we stop playing.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it.

To give the white-haired father or mother not only respect, but confidence, to tell the joke and the secret to them first, to accord them cordially the central place in the merrymaking, may seem trivial matters, yet they are not trivial to those who, in the twilight of life, begin to think they are useless or forgotten, and to question whether they shall be missed when they shall go out into the nearing night. Courtesy is but a little thing and costs nothing, and if it is due to any one, it is surely due to the aged among us, especially when these are our parents.

Better aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

What soberness conceals Drunkenness reveals.

Said one man to another: 'When I have my liquor I feel strong enough to knock a house down.' 'Through my leaving off my liquor, I have been able to put two houses up,' came the disquieting reply.

A few years ago at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100-yard dash. At the gun they all started out, not exactly in a dash, but with the relish to run the race to the finish and win. All, that is, except one boy who stumbled on the asphalt, tumbled over a couple of times, and began to cry. The other eight heard the boy cry. They slowed down and paused. Then they all turned around and went back. Every one of them. One girl with Down's syndrome bent down and kissed him and said, 'This will make it better.' Then all nine linked arms and walked together to the finish line. Everyone in the stadium stood, and the cheering went on for 10 minutes.

Never withdraw allegiance once granted.

In a world full of people we are alone.

When a person is always right, there is something wrong.

When the Lord gave out brains, I thought He said trains, and I missed mine. When He gave out looks, I thought He said books, and I didn't want any. When He gave out noses, I thought He said roses, and I asked for a red one. When He gave out legs, I thought He said kegs, and I ordered two fat ones. When He gave out chins, I thought He said gins, and I ordered a double one. When He gave out heads, I thought He said beds, and I asked for a soft one. Oh Gee, am I a mess!

By jumping at the stars you may fall in the mud.

There must be an easier way to start the day than by getting up.

Dont itch for things youre not willing to scratch for.

The preservation of our democracy is the intention of the Lord, but if we fight against God or ignore him, he will withdraw his blessings, and will wipe the wicked off this continent as he has done before.

America is a land of divine destiny. The almighty has every intention of keeping it so. But human blindness, human wickedness, human rebellion against God, can seriously interfere even with Gods plan.

To trust in the arm of flesh is foolishness; to suppose that we are self-sufficient is naive. This nation will survive and prosper only as God permits it to do so, and his permission rests upon our obedience to him and his gospel. He brought forth this nation. He gave us our liberty. He inspired our federal constitution. But it is for us to preserve these priceless blessings by our repentance and obedience to God. Our sins and haughty attitudes can only bring us sorrow.

America is still the land of opportunity.

Americas strength is not basically political; nor is it industrial nor military. The foundation of this land is spiritual. When that foundation is weakened, democracy itself is threatened. We cannot allow that to happen.

I am an American. A free American. Free to speak without fear. Free to worship God in my own way. Free to stand for what I think is right. Free to oppose what I believe is wrong. Free to choose those who govern my country. This heritage of freedom, I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honor.

Orlog, The Norns' Chant In the midst of darkness, light; In the midst of death, life; In the midst of chaos, order. In the midst of order, chaos; In the midst of life, death; In the midst of light, darkness. Thus has it ever been, Thus is it now, and Thus shall it always be.

One personal anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

I may not be smart, but then again, I'm not the one that blew up.

It is easier to swallow angry words than to have to eat them.

Steel loses much of its value when it loses its temper.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart.

A fellow with a bad temper will soon find himself with no friends to show it to.

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives.

People are more likely to believe a quote if it is anonymous.

Never ask a question unless the answer makes a difference.

All answers are basically simple.

Story of Four People There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Somebody would do it. But Nobody asked Anybody. It ended up that the job wasn't done and Somebody blamed Everybody, when actually Nobody asked Anybody.

Anything which is not directly observed tends to persist.

There is so much apathy in the world today ... but who cares?

An ape is an animal with the effrontery to resemble man.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without it.

Appreciate more than you expect.

Architecture: music that stands still.

Never argue with a fool people might not know the difference.

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Calmness in argument is a great advantage for he who lets another chafe, warms him at his fire.

Whoever fears to submit any question to the test of free discussion, loves his own opinion more that the truth.

The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used ... by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.

A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.

I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.

But thats what being an artist is feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.

Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art.

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup. As

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without ... having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

Painting is the representation of visible forms.... The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

As Joseph Was A-Walking As Joseph was a-walking He heard Angels sing, 'This night shall be born Our Heavenly King. 'He neither shall be born In house nor in hall, Nor in the place of paradise, But in an ox-stall. 'He shall not be clothed In purple nor pall; But all in fair linen, As wear babies all. 'He shall not be rocked In silver nor gold, But in a wooden cradle That rocks on the mould. 'He neither shall be christened In milk nor in wine, But in pure spring-well water Fresh spring from Bethine.' Mary took her baby, She dressed Him so sweet, She laid Him in a manger, All there for to sleep. As she stood over Him She heard Angels sing, 'Oh, bless our dear Saviour Our Heavenly King!'

Ask Gods blessing on your work, but do not also ask Him to do it

If you are not afraid to ask why, you can change whatever you want.

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, with the virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of virtues, or at least some of their faults.

I don't believe in atheism.

I am an atheist, thank God!

They now have a 900 number for atheists. When you call, nobody answers and you get charged for the call.

The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

The man who attends strictly to his business usually has plenty of business to attend to.

Although at the moment they may be equal in their lack of a real answer, the man who replies 'I'll find out,' is much more valuable to his employer, his neighbor, and to himself than the man who replies 'l don't know.'

On a gloomy, rainy morning, it came little eight-year-old Tommy's turn to say the blessing at breakfast. 'We thank Thee for this beautiful day,' he prayed. His mother asked him why he said that when the day was anything but beautiful. 'Mother,' said he, with rare wisdom, 'never judge a day by its weather.'

Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by opportunities.

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.

Persistence gives confidence and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent action will bring success. When you have that knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the obstruction to a life of all good removed.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Although fate presents the circumstances, how you react depends on your character.

Of course Australia was marked for glory, for its people had been chosen by the finest judges in England.'

The work of the Kingdom will go ahead by assignments not by volunteers.

The average American thinks he isn't.

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Averages: head in the oven, feet in the freezer, on average I'm comfortable.

I knew a girl that almost stole my heart; she was an Aztec priestess.

Nature does make mistakes: sometimes she puts all the bones in the head and none in the back.

You know it's going to be a bad day when you see a 60 Minutes news team waiting in your office.

You know it's going to be a bad day when your twin brother forgot your birthday.

Folks catch bad habits the same way they catch chicken pox by being exposed to them.

You will sometimes see clearly that bad habits nourish the tree of unending material desires, while good habits nourish the tree of spiritual aspirations.

If we don't get some money in our bank account soon, we'll be arrested for impersonating the government.

In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.

Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face fall alone.

Bats are in serious decline nearly everywhere. Worldwide, there are almost a thousand different kinds of bats which comprise nearly one fourth of all mammal species. Of the 43 species living in the U.S. and Canada, nearly 40 percent are endangered or are candidates for such status.... Bats may eat their own weight in insects in a single night. They also control such garden pests such as ants, beetles and disease carrying mosquitoes. As the primary predator of night-flying insects, bats play an important role in this balance of nature.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

Take a little time to do whatever makes a happy you.

Try to be nice to everyone until you have made your first million; after that theyll be nice to you.

You may have great plans and may be impatient to carry them out now. Possibly you can. We usually can do far more than we have believed. But possibly the best time has not arrived and the best place selected. Then be patient while you persevere. Great things require time, and the important projects must pass through many stages. However, if you are determined to accomplish what you have in mind, and do your utmost as well as give yourself the required time, you will certainly do it. All things come to him who waits patiently while he works efficiently.

Be yourself ... you're better at it.

Your politics are your's. You've never thrown in. The minute you do that, their doctrines become your's. You can be held responsible

Once you are real, you cant be ugly ... except to those who dont understand.

None love the bearer of bad news.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Graveyards and landscape gardens, coffins and flowers - fitting friends. All beautiful things disappear, and Beauty is the memory of ideas. Beauty is the Mistress, the gardener Her slave.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Let no one ever say And say it to your shame That all was beauty here, Until you came.

Now men say, 'I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me,' and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.

The way to learn is to begin.

There's nothing wrong with being in the dark, you spend half your life in the dark. It's just that most people keep their eyes closed.

Most of us are more interested in proving that were right than in what is best for ourselves or our relationships with others.

You know what you have to do.... Your job, your purpose is to get accepted, get a cute girlfriend, think up something great to do for the rest of your life. What if you're confused and can't imagine a career? What if you're funny looking and can't get a girlfriend? You see? No one wants to hear it. But the terrible secret is that being young is sometimes less fun than being dead.

Tell a man that there are 6 billion stars in the sky and he will believe you. Tell him that the paint on a park bench is wet and he has to touch it to find out.

If you believe in something, no proof is necessary. If you don't, none is sufficient.

To achieve your dreams, believe in yourself. If you don't, who will?

You must believe to achieve.

Believe you can, believe you can't either way, you're right.

He who plants a seed, Beneath the sod; And waits to see

The floor moves further away when you bend over.

Bereavement leave is limited to 3 days immediately following the death of the family member and must be scheduled in advance.

Think about best friends: What you do for them. What they do for you.

The chief enemy of good is better.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts,

Between the wish and the thing, life lies waiting.

All bicycles weigh 50 pounds: A 30-pound bicycle needs a 20-pound lock and chain. A 40-pound bicycle needs a 10-pound lock and chain. A 50-pound bicycle needs no lock or chain.

Hyperpolysyllabicomania is a fondness for big words.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

The biggest block to any man's success is in his head.

The biggest mistake you can make is to always be afraid of making one.

There are 8,600 species of birds in the world today. They are found everywhere. Birds play a vital role in the balance of nature. They eat insects, pests and small animals. Fruit eating birds are best for scattering seeds for these plants. Seed eating birds digest seeds and in so doing keep millions of weeds from the earth.... Birds have between 1,000 and 25,000 feathers.

This is the story of the little bee whose sex is very hard to see. You cannot tell the he from the she but she can tell, and so can he. The busy bee is never still and has no time to take the Pill. And that is why, in times like these, there are so many sons of bees.

Black holes are where God is dividing by zero. .

I know the argument friend. It's the great theory of history. I've heard it before. It says when things ain't good, instead of getting down and doing something about it, instead of changing your life, it's a hell of a lot easier to blame somebody else. And it just don't wash in my book.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

How many times do we miss our blessings because they are not packaged as we expected?

Blessings star forth forever, but a curse Is like a cloudit passes.

We once visited in a beautiful home just at sundown. We looked out of the large window and remarked what a magnificent view they had with the setting sun. 'Oh,' said our host, 'why, that happens so often we dont even see it any more.' I wonder how many of us are like my friend is with his view of the sunset. We have so many blessings that we never take time to look at them or count them.

Isn't it strange that many of our greatest blessings must come to us in disguise?

Mother Nature couldn't make us perfect, so she did the next best thing she made us blind to our own thoughts.

And the blind will lead the blind and all Those too scared to see I am afraid beware the masque And the truth it conceals.

I want your blood. And I want your soul. And I want them both right now!

They who boast most, generally fail most, for deeds are silent.

I am a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Boggies are an unattractive but annoying people whose numbers have increased rather precipitously since the bottom fell out of the fairy-tale market. Slow and sullen, and yet dull, they prefer to lead simple lives of pastoral squalor. They don't like machines more complicated than a garotte, a blackjack, or a luger, and they have always been shy of the 'big folk' or 'biggers' as they call us. As a rule they avoid us, except on rare occasions when a hundred or so will get together to dry-gulch a lone farmer or hunter. They seldom exceed three feet in height, but are fully capable of overpowering creatures half their size when they get the drop on them.... Their beginnings lie far back in the Good Ole Days when the planet was populated with the kind of colorful creatures you have to drink a quart of Old Overcoat to see nowadays.

The alert was screaming its warning against invading German planes. People were racing for the shelters. 'Hurry up!' cried the housewife to her spouse. 'I cant find my false teeth,' called the befuddled and tardy husband. 'False teeth!' returned the exasperated wife. 'What do you think they are dropping? Sandwiches?'

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

Books are among life's most precious possessions. They are the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that man builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, civilizations perish, but books continue. The perusal of a good book is, as it were, an interview with the noblest men of past ages who have written it.

God deliver me from a man of one book.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.

There is no worse robber than a bad book.

Johnny was a chemist's clerk But Johnny is no more For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4.

A bore is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

The worst thing about a bore is not that he wont stop talking, but that he wont let you stop listening.

You can save yourself a lot of trouble by not borrowing any.

'Bottles and rags! Bottles and rags!' called the ragman, as he plied his calling. 'Why do you always put these words together?' asked a passerby. 'Because, madam,' said the ragman, courteously touching his hat to the lady, 'whenever you find bottles you find rags.'

When you've boxed yourself in, there is no sunshine.

A man has invented a chair that can be adjusted to eight hundred different positions. It is designed for a boy to sit in when he goes to church.

Little George was very piously trained; but he had a strong will and disliked very much to yield. When he was disobedient his mother was accustomed to make him stand in a corner of the room for a while. One night, after he had been more than stubborn, he knelt to say his evening prayer, and made this petition: 'Oh, Lord, bless Georgey and make him a good boy, and don't let him be naughty again, never no never, 'cause you know, Lord, when he is naughty, he sticks to it!'

The human brain is like a railroad freight car guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

I brake for no apparent reason.

Bravery is not a lack of fear. It's proceeding in spite of it.

Just because you can't see the air, doesn't stop you from breathing; and just because you can't see God, shouldn't stop you from believing.

The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences.

You cant spell brothers without at the same time spelling others.

Your task to build a better world God said, And I answered 'How? This world is such a large vast place and so complicated now And I so small and useless am Theres nothing I can do.' And God, in all his wisdom said, 'Just build a better you.'

No matter what your lot in life may be, build something on it.

Whatever your lot in life, build something on it.

Building Self-Confidence: Build skills Build knowledge Does it matter how we look? Choose supportive friends Accept yourself.

Its not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. Its the one that says 'To whom it may concern.'

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement.

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

If you are quiet about your business, your business is apt to be quiet, too.

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.

... Courtesy is as important within an organization as in dealing with outsiders.

Business is a lot like a game of tennis those who serve well usually end up winning

The bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy person.

If it weren't for caffeine, I'd have no personality whatsoever!

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: 'I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.'

You cannot push anyone up the ladder, unless he is willing to climb himself.

You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of it.

What you can't psychologically handle won't let you be ... deal with it.

A group is as capable as it contains capable individual members

You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.

I would rather have a little rose from the garden of a friend, than flowers strewn around my casket when my days on earth must end. I would rather have a living smile from one I know is true, than tears shed round my casket when this world I bid adieu. Bring me all the flowers today, whether pink or white or red, I would rather have one blossom now than a truckload when I am dead.

No one cares how much you know Until they know how much you care.

Reckless automobile driving arouses the suspicion that much of the horse sense of the good old days was possessed by the horse.

Cars are being made with three: one says left turn, one says right turn, and the third says 'guess what im going to do?'

Curiosity did not kill the cat, I got him with the lawnmower.

How can you censor my thoughts? What is right, what is not? How is it you decide, What I should feel inside?

Chair: The headquarters for the hindquarters.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Change is good, but dollars are better.

I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.

If we are not engaged in making ourselves into the kind of person we ought to be, we are automatically engaged in making ourselves into what we ought not to be.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

Some people grin and bear it. Others smile and change it.

The foolish and the dead are the only ones who never change their opinion.

We must always change ... renew ... rejuvenate ... Otherwise, we harden.

All of us are always going to do better tomorrow, and we would, too, if only we started today.

Today, having a change of heart is more than a figure of speech.

Chaos results when the world changes faster than people.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it.

Leaders are like eagles, they don't flock together; you find them one at a time.

When I do right, no one remembers. When I do wrong, no one ever forgets.

When small men begin to cast long shadows, it is a sure sign that the sun is setting.

You can tell what a man is by what he does when he hasnt anything to do.

You can't measure the heart of a champion.

I watched them tearing a building down A gang of men in a busy town. With a Ho-Heave-Ho, a lusty yell They swung a beamand a side wall fell. I asked the foreman, 'Are these men skilled And the men you'd hire if you had to build?' 'For the most part,' he said, 'No indeed. Just common labor is all I need. 'I can easily wreck in a day or two What builders have taken a year to do.' And I thought to myself, as I went away, Which of these roles have I tried to play? Am I a builder, who works with care, Measuring life by the rule and square? Am I shaping my deeds to a well made plan? Patiently doing the things I can? Or, am I a wrecker, who walks the town Content with the labor of tearing down?

You dont have to tell how you live each day, You dont have to say if you work or you play, A tried, true barometer serves in the place, However you live, it will show in your face. The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart Will not stay inside where it first got a start; For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace What you wear in your heart, you wear in your face. If your life is unselfish, if for others you live, For not what you get, but how much you can give; If you live close to God in his infinite grace You dont have to tell it, it shows in your face.

I am building a character that shall never know completion. May I, as the days come and go, ever draw nearer to God through service to His children.

Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is.

Nine characteristics of an exceptional leader 1. Leaders have a clear sense of purpose. 2. Leaders are risk-takers. 3. Leaders are fail-safe. 4. Leaders are persistent. 5. Leaders understand their business. 6. Leaders are perpetual learners. 7. Leaders are positive. 8. Leaders communicate with strong interpersonal skills 9. Leaders energize and empower their followers.

Cherish things while you still have them, before they're gone, and you realize how precious they really are.

It is never too late to have a happy childhood.

If you deny childhood, you deny life. They cant speak up for themselves so we must. Its like, how do we define love, its a very, very deep feeling, but its I think the most important force of life.

Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldnt have said.

It is better to build children than to repair adults.

Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.

One of the greatest mysteries of life is how the idiot that your daughter married can be the father of the smartest grandchildren in the whole wide world.

Soft is the heart of a child; do not harden it.

I guess one reason we worry so much about our children is that were afraid theyll grow up to be like us.

It distresses parents when children who should obey them, instead imitate them.

Children are not born as young ladies and gentlemen, honest, upright and clean, but are so as a result of their training.

Permissiveness and inconsistency with growing children do them more harm than some physical ailments.

By the time a child starts school the extent and duration of his education has already largely been decided for the 'imprint' of his cultural setting is fixed in the first five years.

God gave this child to you to guide, To love, to walk through life beside. A little child so full of charms, To fill a pair of loving arms. God picked you out because he knew How safe his child would be with you.

No one can say the job of bringing up children is easy. There are no perfect rules which will work or are even correct for all children. All the advice given must be adjusted for the particular child and the particular parents.

Children used to be let out of school so they could work now they are sent there so their mothers can.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

'Dear Mom and Dad,' a young college student wrote, 'I havent heard from you for a long time. Please send a check so that I will know that youre all right.'

It is always preferable to visit home with a friend. Your parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature human beings....

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

The Chinese word for garden combines forms for soil, landforms, a well, and an enclosure plus trees. It is generally interpreted as a man-made place for recreation containing three elements: flowers, trees, fishpond; buildings; and, an artificial mountain.

I am a serious chocoholic. For the serious chocoholic, chocolate is better than sex. If you believe that, you REALLY need to meet that special someone who can change your mind. If you HAVE met that special someone and still believe that, I REALLY NEED to know where you get your chocolate!!!

A chocolate in the mouth is worth two in the box.

A day without chocolate is a day without sunshine.

Chocolate doesn't make the world go around ... but it certainly makes the ride worthwhile!

Chocolate flows in deep dark, sweet waves, a river to ignite my mind and alert my senses

Chocolate: Here today ... Gone today!

Chocolate in the morning is what makes moms get through their day!

Chocolate is good for three things. Two of 'em cannot be mentioned on public television.

Chocolate is the best when it melts so creamy and soft in your mouth and it slides down your throat.

Chocolate The breakfast of champions!

Forget love-- I'd rather fall in chocolate!!!

I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter.

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process.... It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?

If life is like a box of chocolates, then its time for me to buy another box, I seemed to have already devoured all the good ones!

If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devasated.

In the beginning, the Lord created chocolate, and he saw that it was good. Then he separated the light from the dark, and it was better.

Life is like a box of chocolates, the best ones are half eaten!!

Life without chocolate is like a beach without water.

Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can.

Put 'eat chocolate' at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

Put the chocolate in the bag and nobody gets hurt.

Seen recently on a tee shirt ~ EMERGENCY ALERT: If wearer of this shirt is found vacant, listless, or depressed, ADMINISTER CHOCOLATE IMMEDIATELY.

Simply put ... everyone has a price, mine is chocolate!

This guy found a bottle on the ocean, and he opened it and out popped a genie, and he gave him three wishes. The guy wished for a million dollars, and poof! there was a million dollars. Then he wished for a convertible, and poof! there was a convertible. And then, he wished he could be irresistible to all women ... poof! he turned into a box of chocolates.

I don't understand why so many 'so called' chocolate lovers complain about the calories in chocolate, when all true chocoholics know that it is a vegetable. It comes from the cocoa bean, beans are veggies, 'nuff said.

Exercise is a dirty word.... Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

Nuts just take up space where chocolate ought to be.

Everything I eat should contain either garlic or chocolate, but rarely both

Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!

Some people lose sight of the fact that of two evils, it isnt necessary to choose either.

A legend of long ago says that the devil gave a hermit the choice of three great vices, one of which was drunkenness. The hermit chose this as being the least sinful; he became drunk, and then he committed the other two.

Its a lot easier to tell what you would do if you had the right chance than to show what you did with the chance you had.

When we choose a road, we choose the place where it ends.

He who chooses the beginning of a road also chooses its destination.

You become like those who you idealize, admire and follow.

Christ has no hands but our hands, to do his work today. He has no feet but our feet, to lead men in his way. He has no lips but our lips, to tell men how he died; He has no self but ourselves, to bring men to his side. What if our hands are busy, with other work than his? What if our feet are straying where sins allurement is? What if our lips are saying the things his lips would scorn? How can we hope to help him, and hasten his return?

Like you, I am broken and fragile Like you, I am tasting my heart for the first time Like you, I am feeding on slumber Like you, I've left my eyes far behind me Down for the count and still drowning.

When the world is at its worst, Christians must be at their best.

What a situation! Our 6 year old Amy wont tell us what she wants for Christmas. She says she told Santa.

Let us pray that strength and courage abundant be given to all who work for a world of reason and understanding, that the good that lies in every mans heart may day by day be magnified, that men will come to see more clearly not that which divides them, but that which unites them, that each hour may bring us closer to a final victory, not of nation over nation, but of man over his own evils and weaknesses, that the true spirit of this Christmas season its joy, its beauty, its hope, and above all its abiding faith may live among us, that the blessings of peace be ours the peace to build and grow, to live in harmony and sympathy with others, and to plan for the future with confidence.

Having the church full of members is like the wood-box full of sticks its a handy place to have them but they dont do any good till they catch fire.

We are to be more than mere church members, for church membership alone will not save us. It is what we do with our membership that counts.

There are stowaways in church, too, who hide out, hoping to make the journey without either paying or earning their way.

An honest government official is one who has not had a good enough offer.

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.

Never clarify tomorrow what you can obscure today.

On a clear day you can see forever.

On a clear disk you can seek forever.

Our clock of life, wound up in the womb, begins to run down at the very moment of birth. Everyday, we die a little.

The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hand will stop. At late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in tomorrow for the clock may then be still.

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Moderately drunk, coffee removes vapours from the brain, occasioned by fumes of wine, or other strong liquors; eases pains in the head, prevents sour belchings, and provokes appetite.

It's not the cold, it's the lack of humidity.

Nothings so cold as closing the heart when all we need is to free the soul.

It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.... I'm all alone, More or less. Let me fly far away from here. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Written in the dust on the back of a bus. Wickenburg, Arizona. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.

If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.

The Ten Commandments of Gardening Thou shalt be patient till it's thyme to garden Thou shalt be outstanding in thy field Thou shalt lovingly care for the Earth Thou shalt weed thy garden diligently Thou shalt take time to smell the flowers Thou shalt keep a fresh from the garden attitude Thou shalt give freely of the bounty of thy harvest Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors soil Thou shalt listen to your Garden Angels Thou shalt bloom where you are planted and grow strong under God's tender care.

I should make sure that my commitment to the Savior overrides everything.

One day a little frog fell into a large wagon wheel rut. He tried and tried to get out but he could not. A frog friend heard of his plight and come to see if he could help. To his amazement, he found his friend out of the rut. 'How did you do it?' 'I had to,' replied the frog. 'A wagon was coming.'

The common cold, if left untreated, lasts about two weeks. If treated with medication and rest, it lasts about fourteen days.

The one thing you cannot teach a person is common sense.

When in doubt, communicate!

Communication is the universal solvent.

The Lord gave us two ears and one mouth; use them in proportion.

Trying to settle a problem with oratory is like attempting to unsnarl a traffic jam by blowing horns.

Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it.

If competitive advantage can be achieved from just-in-time participatory management styles, then bottom-line oriented organizations can better facilitate their gain-sharing systems to network for the new global technologies. At my company, for example, detected casualties fluctuate between generic niche discontinuities and complementary enculturative yield functions.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.

There is no subject, however complex, which if studied with patience and intelligence will not become more complex.

If you cant fix it on the road, its too complicated.

THE Hunter and the Bear ... The Sory of a Perfect Compromise The hunter sighted his quarry, and raised his rifle to fire. The bear, raising a paw, said, 'Now just a minute friend; can't we talk this over like two rational, intelligent, progressive beings?

To err is human and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee that will do them in.

Never let a computer know youre in a hurry.

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1-1/2 tons.

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. .

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost.

Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

Computers are stupid they do exactly what you tell them to do.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Some people jump to conclusions while others dig for facts.

Folks are quick to condemn a man who does wrong ... Unless hes a church member and then they condemn the church.

You won't even get started if you wait for all the conditions to be 'just right.'

General Conference is a beautiful merging of music, song, speech and the spirit.

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

Confidence is the companion of success.

If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

Nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor pleases.

CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C? (Y/n) .

If pro is the opposite of con, is Progress the opposite of Congress?

A Congressional promise to the Troops at Valley Forge for a sumptuous Thanksgiving resulted in 'half a gill of rice and a tablespoon of vinegar.' Times don't change.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Conscience is the voice of the soul.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

My conscience doesn't keep me from doing things. It does keep me from enjoying them.

Sometimes when a person thinks his mind is getting broader, it is just his conscience stretching.

There is a difference between him who does no misdeeds because of his own conscience and him who is kept from wrongdoing because of the presence of others.

When you have no observers be afraid of yourself.

Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you from enjoying it.

Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you wish you weren't.

Woman interviewed by Bishop: Would you give to the Kingdom two houses? Yes. Would you give two cars? Yes. Would you give two horses? No. Why not? I have two horses.

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Consideration is the parent of wisdom.

Consistency isn't a necessary aspect of life. The universe is unfinished, you know.

The control center of your life is your attitude.

The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

The world is run by 'C' students.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

There can be no secret in life and morals because nature has provided that every beautiful thought you know and every precious sentiment you feel shall shine out of your face, so that all that are great enough may see, know and understand.

It demoralizes any community to give them gold and silver to their hearts content. But give them iron and coal, good hard work, plenty to eat, good schools, and good doctrines and it will make them a healthy, wealthy, and happy people

Courage consists not so much in avoiding danger as in conquering it.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.

Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live.

To boldly go where no one has gone before.

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes ... but that would be a mistake.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

No man is too big to be courteous, but some are too little.

Covenants are the means whereby men link themselves to God in order to lay hold upon eternal life.

Crashing silent, broken down, falling into night Who gave up and who gave in, I'll go without a fight Cut me down or cut me dead, cut me in or out Kiss me blind time after time, take away my doubt.

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.

You actually care about those creatures, you're just as crazy as they are.

All my friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Creative thinking is no substitute for hard work.

We can only paint with the colors we've stirred up within us.

Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us.

It's easy to criticize; it's like shooting fish in a barrel

The real aim of criticism is not the destruction of cherished traditions although a due regard for the facts does often compel us to revise older opinions but a fuller appreciation of the beauty and truth of the creative work on which it fixes its regard. The word 'criticism' is derived from the Greek word kritikos, which means 'the ability to select or discriminate,' hence, to decide or judge. The meaning of criticism is thus discriminating judgment.

Always remember, no one can debase you but yourself. Slander, satire, falsehood, injusticethese can never rob you of your manhood. Men may lie about you, they may denounce you, they may cherish suspicions manifold, they may make your failings the target of their wit or cruelty. Never be alarmed; never swerve an inch from the line your judgment and conscience have marked out for you. They cannot, by all their efforts, take away your knowledge of yourself, the purity of your character, and the generosity of your nature. While these are left, you are unharmed.

Criticize, generalize everyone's strange Yet you choose to refuse to try and change And through your eyes you surmise what isn't there Because your dream isn't what it seems now you don't even care.

The tower in Pisa is straight the rest of the world is crooked.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Oh cruel fate ... why do you mock me?

My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery.

May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone. May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love. May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you take be the bitterest cup of sorrow. May you die without benefit of clergy; May there be none to shed a tear at your grave, and may the hearthstone of hell be your best bed forever.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Cynics are made, not born.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

An Unfailing Success Plan: At each days end write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and then do them.

Each day I pray, God give me strength anew To do the tasks I do not wish to do; To yield obedience never asking why To love and own the truth and scorn the lie; To look the cold world bravely in the face.

If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are!

You've got to dance like no one's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.

Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you.

Once upon a time a cat who prided herself on her wit and wisdom was prowling about the barn in search of food and saw a tail protruding from a hole. 'There is the conclusion of a rat,' she said. Then she crept stealthily toward it until within striking distance, when she made a jump and reached it with her claws. Alas! it was not the appendage of a rat, but the tail of a snake, who immediately turned and gave her a mortal bite. And if such a story has a moral, it surely must be that it is indeed dangerous to jump at conclusions.

The darkest hour is only 60 minutes long.

The country girl had been in the big university for some months but seemed depressed and discouraged. Her roommate tried to cheer her up. 'The first year is always the hardest. Remember you came here to get a college degree.' 'Oh yeah,' was the reply. 'I came to find a husband, but I havent even had a date.'

Dawn: the time when people of reason go to bed.

From an Egyptian papyrus letter, circa. 2000 BC Dear Mother: Im all right. Stop worrying about me.

I opened the old, old Bible, And looked at a page of Psalms, Till the wintry sea of my troubles Was soothed as by summer calms; For the words that have helped so many; And the ages have made more dear, Seemed new in their power to comfort, As they brought me their word of cheer.

Precious thought, my Father knoweth, In His love I rest; For whate'er my Father doeth. Must be always best.

There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.

Death is not the extinguishing of the light, but putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.

Death and taxes may be certain, but we don't have to die every year.

The end of the world is coming. Please pay your bill so we don't have to look all over hell for you.

Indecision becomes decision with time.

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

Decisions not resolutions.

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

When you are in deep water, it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut.

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

Never precede any demo by a comment more predictive than 'Watch this!'.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

Refuse Novocaine ... Transcend Dental Medication

If you get what you want, youll deserve it ... and if you dont, youll manage.

To have more, desire less.

We must educate our very desires, for God finally gives to each man the desires of his heart.

Your destiny is not always the one you seek, but always the one that finds you.

We have fired! They will be destroyed!

Dont get so involved in the timetable that you miss the train.

Determination is the down payment on sales achievement.

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.

A sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil.

Men don't believe in the devil now, as their fathers used to do? They've forced the door of the broadest creed to let his majesty through; There isn't a print of his cloven foot, or a fiery dart from his brow, To be found in the earth or air today, for th

They say that diamonds are a girl's best friend, and a dog is a man's best friend. What does that tell us about which sex is smarter.

To die of natural causes: hit by a granola truck.

It is difficult to believe that someone can differ from us and be right.

If you have a difficult task, give it to someone lazy, that person will find an easier way to do it.

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

Eight things to do when difficulty hits you. 1. Keep calm, dont panic, dont get dramatic. 2. Dont nurse regrets, (forget what is over the dam). 3. Practice de-confusion (list it on paper). 4. Dont insist on a solution for the whole problem (just go one step at a time). 5. Ask yourself if the problem is right or wrong; (no wrong action works out right) (hold on to the right and you will come out all right in the end.). 6. Pray. 7. Go for a walk and talk with the Lord and then listen and believe. 8. Continue to persevere. You will somehow stay on top and come out all right.

Good luck is with the man who doesn't include it in his plan.

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.

As soon as you understand two times four, you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

The only time you can do anything about a dissatisfied life is right now. Make this instant a great one.

The distance drew near, like a speck on a ball Where circular imprints stepped from the light And whispered a slogan invented by anyone. So they all went along and yelled to the heavens Or some place as good.

Dividing 100% responsibility between two people gives 10% for each of them.

Is that what she thinks? Not realizing that alienation and patronization are slow torture? You find yourself listing to NIN, or something equally cliché... but you can't help it ... the pain stays for a while (it seems like forever). You want to lash back but how can you when you love that person. Why can't they remember all those wonderful moments that you do? So you lock your heart in brimstone, never to be touched again.

Large trees give more shade than fruit.

The shortest answer is doing the thing. The shortest answer is performing the request.

Try not! Do, or do not! There is no try!

Do what thou lovest; paint or sing or carve. Do what thou lovest, though the body starve! Who works for glory oft may miss the goal. Who works for money merely starves the soul; Work for the works sake, then, and, it may be, These other thingsll be added unto thee.

Do your best; get some fun out of life every day; put your trust in God.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do.... doesn't God know I'm dense?

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love until he's owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me.... They must be Gods! A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me.... I must be a God!

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

Often when you find something worth doing, you also find folks trying to keep you from doing it.

Doing nothing gets pretty tiresome because you can't stop and rest.

There is no thrill quite like doing something you didn't know you could.

Doing your best today might not be important but its good practice for the time when it will be important.

Dont mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it. If it is unfair, keep from irritation. It if is ignorant, smile. If it is justified, learn from it.

Defeat isnt bitter, if you dont swallow it.

If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.

Don't sweat the petty things ... pet the sweaty things.

Double negatives are a no-no.

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway.

To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go To right the unrightable wrong To love pure and chaste from afar To try when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow the star No matter how hopeless, no matter how far To fight for the right without question or pause To be willing to pass into hell for a heavenly cause And know if I'll only be true to the glorious quest That my heart lies peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world will be better for this That one man scorned and covered in scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow the star No matter how hopeless, no matter how far To fight for the right without question or pause And to dream the impossible dream.

Show me somebody who doesnt have a dream about the future and Ill show you somebody who doesnt know where he is going.

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.

You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.

No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.

The game is never over, and the prize is never won. Broken doors, broken dreams, it's all the same thing. A door's purpose is to conceal the contents of a room, and dreams are the doors of the mind.

C. Clyde Squires read of a researcher who drank whiskey with water and got drunk! Drank brandy with water and got drunk. Same thing happened with rum and water. So he concluded that water was intoxicating.

Nearly 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. Only 1% can be used for all agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community and personal needs.

You can lead a car to a highway, but you can't make it think.

Speaking of automobiles, some wit has observed; many freeways have three lanes. Theres a left lane, a right lane and the one youre trapped in when you go past your exit.

Duty by habit turns into pleasure.

According to the ancient Greeks, when Hercules was a boy, just reaching the period of life when there was a question in his mind which path he should pursue, he went forth by himself and sat down and meditated. There came to him someone in the form of a beautiful young woman. 'Hercules, I know what you want,' she said 'the path that I will point out to you will bring pleasure, will bring you constant place in society, will bring you the choice things of life, to eat and to drink and clothing to wear. You shall be popular in the society in which you shall move, and your whole life will be one constant round of pleasure.' 'What is your name?' Hercules asked. 'My enemies call me Vice, but my friends call me Pleasure,' she replied. Then there appeared to him another beautiful woman and she said: 'Hercules, I shall not deceive you; the path I shall point out to you will be a path of labor, a path of toil, a path of self-sacrifice, a path in which you must devote a great deal of your effort and energy; you will have to forget yourself; you will have to serve your friends; you will have to serve the people of Greece; but if you will take this path and pursue it, although it may bring to you much toil and privation and many sacrifices, you shall become immortal.' Hercules asked: 'What is your name?' She replied: 'My name is Duty.'

There are three men that all ought to look upon with affection: he that with affection looks at the face of the earth, that is delighted with rational works of art, and that looks lovingly on little children.

When the going seems easy, you may be going downhill.

'Easy to use' is easy to say.

Echo A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!' To his surprise, the son hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: 'AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!' Curious, he yells: 'Who are

Every man of discernment, when walking upon the earth, feeleth indeed abashed, inasmuch as he is fully aware that the thing which is the source of his prosperity, his wealth, his might, his exaltation, his advancement and power is, as ordained by God, the very earth which is trodden beneath the feet of all men.

The food of the future will be fruits and grains. The time will come when meat will no longer be eaten ... our natural food is that which grows out of the ground.

Economists are people who work with numbers but do not have the personality to be accountants. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

It surprises us to see a rich man economize and a poor man splurge but thats how they got that way.

All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

The relationship of editor to author is knife to throat.

The trouble with some people today, they are educated beyond their intelligence.

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

Education is what you have left over after you have forgotten everything you have learned.

Education should include knowledge of what to do with it.

Never let your studies interfere with your education.

The heart of education is the education of the heart.

Self-education education that never ends is a constant window to the east from which one can behold the promising colors of the sunrise.

Im opposed to any education which will give our children knowledge without morals to help them use it.

When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

Education is very important. School, however, is another matter.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

Eight 'Do Mores' 1. Do more than exist: Live. 2. Do more than touch: Feel. 3. Do more than hear: Listen. 4. Do more than listen: Understand. 5. Do more than look: Observe. 6. Do more than love: Serve. 7. Do more than think: Ponder. 8. Do more than Talk: Say something.

If it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight.

There's nothing wrong with that girl that 50,000 volts wouldn't fix.

Electronic Mail: For when you absolutely, positively, have to lose important documents at the speed of light.

Don't forget a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Could we look into the hearts concealed from us, we should often pity where we hate, love where we think we can never forgive, and admire where we curl the lip with scorn and indignation.

Some peoples heads are particularly suited to handle empty praise.

The more I encourage a child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think.

The end is only the beginning....

The end of the world has been delayed two weeks due to a lack of experienced trumpters.

If the end of the world is imminent before all Tenant's obligations are fully performed, then Landlord may elect to declare all rents to the end of the term to be immediately due and payable in full and may be enforced against Tenant by any available procedure. For remedial purposes, the Landlord will be deemed aligned with the forces of light, and the Tenant with the forces of darkness, regardless of the parties' actual ultimate destinations, unless and until Landlord elects otherwise in writing.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on, and swing!

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Never mistake endurance for hospitality.

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.

Cycology The science of propelling one's self through the environment to enhance well-being.

The 'Enough Already' Law: The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice.

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.

Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you.

Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

If you can't get enthusiastic about your work, it's time to get alarmedsomething is wrong. Compete with yourself; set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. No one keeps up his or her enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. It is your own fault if your enthusiasm is gone; you have failed to feed it. If you want to turn hours into minutes, renew your enthusiasm.

Those who are gonna burn in the end are those who are not on fire now.

Entrepreneurs don't give up easily. When they're successful, this is called 'perseverance.' Before they succeed, or if they fail, it's called 'stubborn,' 'bullheaded,' 'arrogant,' or 'foolish.'

ENTROPY: The degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity. Order is created and controlled by intelligence. Entropy occurs in the physical world without control by intelligence. Synonyms: Chaos, Confusion, Entropy, Disarray, Disharmony, Disintegration, Disorder, Disorganization, Disruption, Incoherence, Incohesive, Jumble, Noncohesive, Nonintegration, Mess, Morass, Muddle, Slackness, Sloppiness.

Equality is the soul of friendship.

Smoke hangs like haze over harvested fields, The gold of stubble, the brown of turned earth And you walk under the red light of fall The scent of fallen apples, the dust of threshed grain The sharp, gentle chill of fall. Here as we move into the shadows of autumn The night that brings the morning of spring Come to us, Lord of Harvest Teach us to be thankful for the gifts you bring us....

It is far better that we should err in action than completely refuse to perform.

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

You would do well to learn that there is no credit buying of eternal things. Things of eternal value must be paid for in advance. The mistakes, the penalties must be paid for afterwards.

Millions of years may pass away; The sun no longer shines by day; The stars burn out and lifeless be; The earth freezes up from sea to sea, And yet time never takes as toll The deathless substance of a soul.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of freedom.

It may seem like you are struggling alone and unseen; yet, you are on the center-stage of eternity.

Know this, that evry soul is free To choose his life and what hell be; For this eternal truth is givn That God will force no man to heavn. Hell call, persuade, direct aright, And bless with wisdom, love and light, In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind. Freedom and reason make us men; Take these away, what are we then? Mere animals, and just as well The beasts may think of heavn or hell. May we no more our powrs abuse, But ways of truth and goodness choose; Our God is pleased when we improve His grace and seek his perfect love.

There is no teaching force like a good mans life.

This is an age-old truth: People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

If you arent setting a good example, youre setting a bad one.

Its pretty hard to start a child out in the way he should go if that isnt the way you are going.

Children learn best from example; the trouble is they don't know a good example from a bad one.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet,

Are you excited because things are going well, or are things going well because you're excited?

It doesn't matter how valid your excuses, they will never change your performance.

Someone asked an executive one day why he kept a bowl of goldfish on his desk. I find it relaxing to have something around here that doesnt complain or ask for a raise every time it opens its mouth.

Exhilaration that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and before you realize what's wrong with it.

There are many who wait for their ships to come in, For their ships to come in from the sea. This question they ask as they watch and wait: 'Will a ship come home to me?' The answer comes swift from a voyager old, A voyager weathered and gray: 'Have you sent forth a craft with a cargo, friend? A craft that might some in today?' There are many who long for their ships to come in, That they from their cares may be free; But how could a ship come home to them When theyve sent no craft to sea?

If you are hurt by something external, it is not so much by the thing itself, but by your expectation of it.

You know, everyday I get out of bed and drag myself to the next cup of coffee. I take a sip and the caffeine kicks in. I can focus my eyes again. My brain starts to order the day. I'm up, I'm alive. I'm ready to rock. But the time is coming when I wake up and decide that I'm not getting out of bed. Not for coffee, or food, or sex. If it comes to me, fine. If it won't, fine. No more expectations. The longer I live the less I know. I should know more, I should know the coffee's killing me. You're suspicious of your suspicions? I'm jealous. I'm so jealous. You still have the heart to have doubts. Me? I'm going to lock up a 14 year old kid for what could be the rest of his natural life. I got to do this. This is my job. This is the deal. This is the law. This is my day. I have no doubts or suspicions about it. Heart has nothing to do with it anymore. It's all in the coffee.

Considering what experience costs, it should be the best teacher.

Experience is a hard teacher, it tests first and teaches afterward.

Experience is largely non-transferable.

They can take your money but they can't take your experience.

You don't learn anything the second time you are kicked by a mule.

Let experience be your teacher, let challenges be the test of life.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn from no other.

Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is very costly.

If you can explain it, you aren't experiencing it.

Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

My eyes see the present and my mind paints the future.

The first step of handling anything is gaining an ability to face it.

Those who are willing to face the music may someday lead the band.

If man cannot face what he is, then man cannot be free

You can't make a fact out of an opinion by raising your voice.

By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts!

My mind's made up don't confuse me with the facts.

You never have to worry about contradictions when you stick to the facts.

A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he gives up.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Faith is sometimes equated with credulity, but it can be so equated only when the profound mistake is made of thinking of faith as primarily a matter of intellectual assent. As the New Testament uses the word, faith is trust, acceptance, commitment, vision. It is not a belief in this or that creed, it is a quality which lies rather in the realm of intuition than the intellect. Faith has indeed an element of true simplicity; it is one of the qualities perhaps the fundamental quality of the child-like spirit without which no man can enter the Kingdom of God.

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing The dream that you wish will come true.

I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished.... And how else could we discover the stars?

Plan ahead it wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

When the congregation of a drought-stricken area gathered to pray for rain, the preacher said: 'Brethren, we are here to pray for rain. Where is your faith? Not one of you brought an umbrella!'

When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly.

A blind man inched his way along the busy street during the rush hour until he felt the curb with his foot. He paused until he sensed a person standing next to him, then he said: 'May I accompany you across the street?' 'Yes, certainly' came the reply from an elderly woman as she took his arm. The two persons walked safely across the street as cars and pedestrians whirled about them. When they came to the sidewalk on the other side of the street, the blind man turned to thank his escort, but before he could phrase his appreciation she said, 'Thanks for the safe crossing. Being blind is made bearable because of peoples kindness.'

About all you have to do to get a man to behave right is expect him to.

A persons journey through life is somewhat like a long walk through a forest on a dark night. Part of the way a companion carries a lantern, but then the path divides and one must go alone. If one carries his own lantern an inner light of faith he need not fear the darkness.

We need a steady faith a photographers flash bulb is brighter than a lantern but wouldnt be much good for finding our way.

A little fish, overhearing a fisherman remark that water is essential to life, became panicky and swam desperately in search of water, until it reached the ocean and asked a wise old fish where it could find water. The old timer laughed and said, 'Why, you've never been out of water. Youve had water all the time, but you didnt know it.' So it is with faith; you have it, it is with you. You simply have to realize and use it and it will grow.

It is not faith and works; it is not faith or works; it is faith that works.

Faith is like water in a river bed. The more you have, the smoother it flows over the rocks.

A man, much in demand as an after dinner speaker, once mused: 'If there is applause at the beginning of a speech, it means Faith; if in the middle of the speech, it means Hope; if at the end, it means Charity.'

In thought, faith In word, wisdom In deed, courage In life, service.

Where one succeeds because of his smartness, ten succeed because of their faithfulness.

Fame is a cancer and ego: its seed.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

It has been said: as family goes, so goes America.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is Gods own method of training the young.

This country needs a family tree producing more lumber than nuts.

If you pick a truth and follow it blindly. It becomes a falsehood, and you a fanatic.

However ridiculous fashion may be, it is far less ridiculous to follow it than to set it at defiance.

Church ain't over till the fat lady sings.

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited 'til he could do so well that no one could find fault with it.

All men/women have ten faults. Pick ten faults you can live with.

I guess its just as well its so difficult for some men to see their own faults it might be too discouraging.

Faults are thick where love is thin.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives.

Fear, it's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above

When your knees knock together, kneel on them.

Aibohphobia: the fear of palindromes.

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.

If Im fearful If Im angry If Im jealous If Im coy If I feel dependentthe feelings I have are not my problems. My attitudes toward these feelings are my psychological problems.

Keep your feet close to the ground.

There is a fifty percent chance of anything either it happens or it doesn't.

The real bankrupt is he whose expenditure of speech exceeds his income of ideas.

You always find something in the last place you look for it.

Longing I have another life I long to meet Without which life my life is incomplete. O better self, like me, art thou astray, Striving with all thy heart to find the way To mine; seeking like me, to find the breast On which, alone, can weary heart find rest.

Some people talk about finding Godas if He could get lost.

The first three minutes of your life can be dangerous ... The last three can be pretty dodgy, too!

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Semper Gumby Always Flexible

The Kingdom of Flowering Plants holds a special compassion for human travail. Because of this, the essences of flowers support us with a special compassion through our earthbound transformation. Flower essences contain the vibratory qualities of the flowers, and are made by infusing the flower into springwater under sun or moon light.

Flowers are the poetry of earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven.

The Chrysanthemum, the Flower of Happiness, was so revered that in Japan only the nobles could grow it. It has been grown for over 2,000 years all throughout in the Far East. It has come to mean love and truthfulness. We may see it carved on the throne of the Emperor of Japan and on many Chinese artifacts.

Come, landlord, fill the flowing bowl Until it doth run over.... For tonight well merry be, Tomorrow well be sober.

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

To get nowhere, follow the crowd.

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.

There are so many ways of being a fool that it's hard to avoid them all.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Don't be fooled by appearances, but be a master of illusion.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

If a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk.

Foresight is knowing when to shut your mouth before someone suggests it.

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.

I make it a point to forget my troubles as easily as most rooks forget their blessings.

The bigger the heart, the less room for the memory of a wrong.

There is a noble forgetfulness that which does not remember injuries.

If we dont forgive ourselves, then how can we expect the Lord to forgive us.

Forgiveness goes with repentance.

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

As we learn to shorten the time between offense and forgiveness, there becomes no time left for anger or vindictiveness.

When friends truly forgive us, it is so much easier to forgive ourselves.

I've seen how you treat your prisoners. Forgotten and scared without hope or compassion.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but i can give you the formula for failure try to please everybody.

Man can not forsake God to lean on the arm of flesh. It's like throwing away your legs for a pair of crutches.

Who soars too near the sun with golden wings; Melts them; to ruin his own fortune brings.

If you need four screws for a job, the first three will be easy to find.

Study reveals that 5 out of 4 Americans have trouble with fractions.

Some people think they are generous because they give away free advice.

You're just as free as the leash you're on. You tug it too hard, and they'll hang you by it.

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.

May there always be sunshine, may there always be blue skies, may there always be Mama, may there always be me.

We are only free when we are who God wants us to be. A fish in a tree is not free. A bird in a tree is free.

The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

Who ceases to be a friend, never was one.

Don't tell all your secrets to your friend, it's possible he may one day be your enemy. Don't exert all the evil in your power upon your enemy, it may be, one day, he will be your friend.

If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Everyone sees who you appear to be, but only a select few know who you really are.

Friends are people you can be quiet with.

Friends are those who treat you kindly behind your back.

Friends: people who know you well, but like you anyway.

Friends warm the world with Happiness.

Memory builds a pathway that goes winding through the heart and keeps friends close together even though they are far apart.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

To laugh a bit and joke a bit And grasp a friendly hand; To love a bit and scold a bit And know theyll understand; To tell ones secrets, hopes and fears And share a friendly smile; To have a friend and be a friend Is what makes life worthwhile.

When you're up, your friends know who you are. When you're down, you know who your friends are.

Friends: family that you can choose for yourself.

The only way you could be a friend of some folks would be to agree with them when they are wrong?

A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friends are special, treasure them.

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

When trouble comes your soul to try, You love the friend who just 'stands by. Perhaps there is nothing he can do The thing is strictly up to you; For there are troubles all your own, And paths the soul must tread alone; Times when love can't smooth the road Nor friendship lift the heavy load, But just to know you have a friend Who will 'stand by' until the end, Whose sympathy, through all endures, Whose warm handclasp is always yours And so with fervent heart you cry, 'God bless the friend who just 'stands by'.'

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you dont say.

When friends offer to help, let them.

When good friends walk beside us On the trails that we must keep, Our burdens seem less heavy And the hills are not so steep. The weary miles pass swiftly Taken in a joyous stride, And all the world seems brighter When friends walk by our side.

An English publication offered a prize for the best definition of a friend, and among the thousands of answers received were the following: 'One who multiplies joys, divides grief, and whose honesty is inviolable.' 'One who understands our silence.' 'A volume of sympathy bound in cloth.' 'A watch which beats true for all time and never runs down.' Here is the definition that won the prize: 'A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.'

Fate chooses our relationships; we choose our friends.

Friend: one who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Make new friends, but keep the old; those are silver, these are gold. Friendships that have stood the test, time and change are surely best.

No matter what the object of the search, it is friendship that fulfills it.

Old friends are always best, less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

People say that friends hold hands, but true friends don't need to, because they know that the other hand is always there.

'The only rose without thorns is friendship.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.

What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and the grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge grand as knowledge is but just the laughter of children, and the friendship of friends, and the cozy talk by the fire, and sight of flowers, and the sound of music.

Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.

Someone's in my fruit cellar.

In our gardens, Lord Ganesha sends His power through fruits and vegetables, the ones that grow above the ground, to permeate our nerve system with wisdom, clearing obstacles in our path when eaten. The growers of them treat it like they would care for Ganesha in His physical form.

Frustration is not having anyone to blame but yourself.

Frustration is when you have ulcers but still aren't a success.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to sacrifice to become what you would like to be.

No one can forbid us the future.

The future belongs to those who dare.

The future lay sparkling ahead of us and we thought that we'd know each other forever

The nicest thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

The trouble with the future is that they keep moving it closer.

Your future lies ahead of you Like a sheet of fallen snow. Be careful where you take a step Because its sure to show.

The past cannot be changed, but the future is whatever you want it to be.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

A garden is an expression of Man in a state of society.

Now in the east the white bean and the great squash are tied with the rainbow. Listen! the rain's drawing near! The voice of the bluebird is heard.

In my garden, love grows.

The wonderful thing about gardenbased learning is that it's a handson, mindson experience where my students and I learn together.

Whether you tend a garden or not, you are the gardener of your own being, the seed of your destiny.

A research project in Australia, entitled 'The Congruent Garden: an Investigation into the Role of the Domestic Garden in Satisfying Fundamental Human Needs,' interviewed gardeners on the values of gardening in their everyday lives. The researchers established that gardens have the potential to satisfy nine basic human needs (subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity, freedom) across four existential states (being, having, doing and interacting.)

Have you heard of the garlic diet? You don't lose much weight, but from a distance your friends think you look thinner.

There was a generation gap between Lucifer and his Father, but another Son understood deeper principles and carried on his Fathers work.

It's hard to know just where one generation ends and the next one begins, but it's somewhere around 9 P.M.

Genius: A person who aims at something no one else can see and hits it.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

I wash everything on the gentle cycle. It's much more humane.

A big man is one who could look down on you, but wont.

Quite a number of people also describe the German classical author, Shakespeare as belonging to the English literature, because quite accidentally born at Stratford-on-Avon, he was forced by the authorities of that country to write in English.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

It's not a matter of growing old, it's getting old if you don't grow.

You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.

It's a gift to be simple....

What we are is Gods gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Ever notice that the area of a department store containing completely useless objects is called 'gifts?'

The best gifts are tied with heart strings.

Some people give and forgive; Others get and forget.

Give, and forget! Receive, and remember!

To give you must be willing to receive. To receive you must be willing to give.

Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a cat-nap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee.

The giver makes the gift precious.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

We generally admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice.

Giving makes living more loving.

All that glitters has a high refractive index.

The metaphysics of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory, Information more powerful than military hardware.

And now someone's on the telephone desperate in his pain Someone's on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine Someone's got his finger on the button in some room No one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom.

All things come to him who goes after them.

If anything can't go wrong, it will.

Always reach for the moon, because if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars.

Goal Setting: I Set Long Term Goals II Set Short Term Goals III Set Objectives IV Prioritize the Objectives V Define and Detail VI Do It VII Evaluate

Greediness often defeats its own ends, by making us scratch for every trifle when we should dig for gold alone.

Set Your Goals High Enough To Inspire You And Low Enough To Encourage You.

Its a great man wholl get behind and push others toward goals he himself hasnt the strength to reach.

Goal: an aim or objective, the end toward which effort is directed. Resolution: The quality of not allowing difficulties or opposition to affect ones purpose.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

Life magazine headlined in early 1945 that 'God is dead.' Before the year was out the magazine was bankrupt and God still lives!

I am a child of God.

It is the same lesson which mankind has refused to learn over the ages. It has been repeated for centuries. God and home are the most important influences for good in anyones life. Why do so many refuse to admit it and accept it?

We cannot be 'under God' unless we mean it and literally take his word as our pattern. If we pledge that under God we will be indivisible as a people providing liberty and justice for all, why do we not follow that commitment.

Dear Mom and Dad and Bill and Glad: Caught a fish. Camps a wow! Sleeping out is grand. Swimmings fun. Hikings fine. Food is full of sand. Fire at night. Moon is bright. Im all right Gods at hand. Have to run. Your son ... Brad.

No God, Know Fear. Know God, No Fear.

Where God gives, envy cannot harm, and where He gives not, all labor is in vain.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Whatever you do for another, you do for yourself.

A gold-medal winner in life may not be the person who is the fastest, the strongest, the toughest, who has the admiration and cheers of the crowd but the person who has the courage to overcome adversity, overcome the thorns of life, the person who, in fact, has overcome the world.

A man has to do a lot of fine things in order to prove hes good only one evil one to prove hes bad.

The line between good and evil passes not between principalities and powers, but oscillates within the human heart. And even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better.

Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

Good enough isn't.

A good follow-through is just as important in management as it is in bowling, tennis, or golf. Follow-through is the bridge between good planning and good results

Good friends are so hard to come by: may we all value them when we find them.

The unspeakable law. As soon as you mention something. If it is good it goes away.... If it is bad it happens.

A lot of people have great ideas, but nothing in the world is cheaper than a good idea with no action.

The best way to keep good intentions from dying is to execute them.

There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.

Let there be no limit to your goodness even as there is no limit to your Father in Heaven's goodness.

Probity: adherence to the highest principles and ideals, Uprightness; Honesty; Latin probus, to prove, honest, good, Latin probare, to test; Verify, specifically probate; Provenly (Brit.).

Patton's Law: A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

A good sermon leaves you wondering how the preacher knew all about you.

Well the trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the breeze, The stronger the trees.

The way to do good is to be good.

All I do is help bad people find in themselves the good that I know is there.

Thy friend has a friend, and thy friends friend has a friend: be discreet.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Gossip: entertaining oneself and others by talking about the personal affairs of others.

If you talk about someone behind their back, their back will be right behind you

It would probably be an improvement if more things we heard went out the other ear instead of the mouth.

Taking back what you have just said is like taking back vinegar youve just spilled in your drinking water.

Gossip neednt be false to be evil theres a lot of truth that shouldnt be passed around.

Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but its better than no government at all.

Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Governments do not give people rights. The People give government power in order to protect their preexisting rights.

Pro is to con as progress is to congress.

Thank God we dont get all the government we pay for.

The new Congressmen say they're going to turn the government around. I hope I don't get run over again.

Everything the government gives out it has taken from someone else.

If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.

Give me a good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest.

Grain crops, or cereals, are by far the most important sources of plant food for the human race. On a world wide basis, they provide twothirds of the energy and half the protein of the diet. These crops are: wheat, rice, maize (corn), oats, barley, rye, sorghum, and millet.

The grass is greener on the other side, but it is just as hard to mow.

A newspaper subscriber commented: Since reading that report, I've made a conscious effort to recall my blessings nearly every hour. Instead of dreading the drudgery of cleaning house, I express gratitude for my home. I've found so many things to be grateful for, little things like running water and electricity. A few weeks ago, I complained because my knees ached; now I say how grateful I am that I can walk. I think it's important to express our gratitude out loud. The positive focus on gratitude has pushed out of my mind the negative thoughts that were dragging me down.

Keep a Gratitude Journal: Write five things each day for which you are grateful.

Here Rests in Honored Glory An American Soldier Known But to God.

Go climb a gravity well.

The greatest men are the simplest.

What man is there whom contact with a great soul will not exalt? A drop of water upon the petal of a lotus glistens with the splendors of the pearl.

One of our greatest disadvantages is to have too many advantages.

Some people come by greatness naturally; some by BMW.

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

I am a Marxist of the Groucho tendency.

You don't grow rich by a big income, but by small expenses.

Never complain about growing old, Because so many never get the chance!

We should rehearse all the time to become the person we must become in order to return to our Father. Seek to surpass ourselves each day.

Today's mighty oak is yesterday's little nut that held its ground.

No private citizen has any reason or need at any time to possess a gun. This applies to both honest citizens and criminals. We realize the Constitution guarantees the 'right to keep and bear arms' but this should be changed.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

The only way to discourage the gun culture is to remove the guns from the hands and shoulders of people who are not in the law enforcement business.

Habit is a cable, we weave a thread of it each day, and it becomes so strong we cannot break it.

You neednt be saddled with doing the same thing the rest of your life. Let the past and its habits be done with.

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The question, 'Which is the happiest season of life?' was asked of an aged man. And he replied: 'When spring comes, and in the soft air the buds are breaking on the trees, and they are covered with blossoms, I think, 'How beautiful is spring'; and when summer comes and covers the trees with its heavy foliage, and singing birds are among the branches, I think, 'How beautiful is summer.' When autumn loads them with golden fruit, and their leaves bear the gorgeous tint of frost, I think, 'How beautiful is autumn.' And when it is severe winter, and there is neither foliage nor fruit, then I look up through the leafless branches as I never could until now, and see the stars shine in God's home.'

Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.

Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simpleyet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.

Happiness is not given but exchanged.

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.

Happiness lies in our own backyard, but its probably well hidden by crabgrass.

He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him.

I just want to be happy, and I'm so afraid that I never will be.

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesnt cost anything.

No one can secure happiness without earning it.

Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Some pursue happiness others create it.

Sometimes we miss happiness by looking too far for things nearby.

The city of happiness is in the state of mind.

The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious.

The supreme happiness to life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves.

You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone.

I dont remember ever seeing a happy man who had nothing to do.

Those who put happiness into the lives of others will be unable to keep it out of their own.

Happiness seems to be the result of something happening inactivity is not very exhilarating.

The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing.

Find joy and happiness in each stage of life as you live it.

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.

When people yearn with all their hearts For just one treasure far away; They close their eyes to countless joys That crowd around them every day.

Sharing with others is not the way to get rich its the way to get happy!

Take Time Take time to think It is the source of all power. Take time to read It is the fountain of wisdom. Take time to play It is the source of perpetual youth. Take time to be quiet It is the opportunity to seek God. Take time to be aware It is the opportunity to help others. Take time to love and be loved It is Gods greatest gift. Take time to laugh It is the music of the soul. Take time to be friendly It is the road to happiness. Take time to dream It is what the future is made of. Take time to pray It is the greatest power on earth. Take time to give It is too short a day to be selfish. Take time to work It is the price of success. There is a time for everything....

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Happiness is not always measured in smiles.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Happiness is acceptance.

All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

If you're happy and you know it, clank your chains!

It's OK, once you get past the hard exterior.

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Hard work never killed a man but it sure has scared a lot of them.

If hard work is the greatest thing on earth, I'll try Mars.

Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.

The person who has all the answers understands none of the problems.

'The road is too rough, dear Lord,' I cried, 'There are stones that hurt me so.' 'My child,' He said, 'I understand, I walked it long ago.' 'But there's a cool green path ahead, Let me walk there for a time.' 'No child,' He gently answered me, 'The green road does not climb.' 'My burden,' I cried, 'is far too great. How can I bear this load?' 'Dear One,' said He, 'I remember its weightI carried my cross, you know.' 'But,' I said, 'I wish there were friends with me, that would make their way my own.' 'Oh yes,' He said, 'Gethsemane was hard to bear alone.' And so I climbed the stony path, Content at least to know That where the Master had not gone, I would not have to go. And strangely then I found new friends, My burdens grew less sore, As I remembered long ago He walked that way before.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.

Thalidomide is not the first nor the last drug to have brought heartbreak where it was meant to bring help. There have been quite a number of other tragedies since Thalidomide went wrong 13 years ago.

We squander health In search of wealth; We scheme and toil, and save, Then squander wealth In search of health; And all we gets the grave; We live and boast of what we own; We die ... and only get a stone.

I am hearing the brightness of high bluffs and almond trees. I am tasting the wilderness of lakes, rivers and streams, caught in an angle of sound.

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heartnot his head.

You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her. That's what he does. All he does... You can't stop him. He'll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her heart out.

You tell him I'm coming! And hell's coming with me!

If anyone accepts my help who doesn't need it, that's his problem; if I refuse my help to anyone who needs it, that's my problem.

When you help someone up a hill, you're that much nearer the top yourself.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

As you get older, you must remember that you have a second hand. The first one to help yourself, the second one is to help others.

Thousands and thousands of acres in the United States are being sprayed annually with nearly 50 million pounds of Roundup, a broadspectrum herbicide designed to kill any plant it hits, unless the plant has been genetically altered to tolerate the chemical. Roundup has accounted for half of Monsanto's corporate profits in recent years.

Heredity: Something you believe in when your childs report card is all As.

And as cliché as it may sound I'd like to raise another round. And if your bottles empty, Help yourself to mine. Thank you for your time. And here's to life.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

The world needs more Heroes.

Good men usually have around them somebody who expects them to be better than they have any intention of being.

O yell take the high road, and Ill tak the low road, And Ill be in Scotland afore ye, But me and my true love will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks o Loch Lomon

To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way, And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low, And in between on the misty flats The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history. How do we know, for sure, what ever happened anywhere?

The eagle soaring majestically Beholds the lion prowling From now until eternity The philosopher shall be howling And the hoi polloi shall be scowling.

Bury me above the clouds, all the way from here. Take away the things I need, take away my fear. Hide me in a hollow sound, happy ever more. Everything I had to give, gave them long before.

One hologram is worth 1,000,000,000 words.

Home is wherever my books are.

Where we love is truly home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

I am home in Heaven, dear ones; Oh, so happy and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting light. All the pain and grief is over, Every restless tossing passed; I am now at peace forever, Safely home in Heaven at last. Did you wonder I so calmly Trod the valley of the shade? Oh! but Jesus' love illumined Every dark and fearful glade. And He came Himself to meet me In that way so hard to tread; And with Jesus' arm to lean on, Could I have one doubt or dread? Then you must not grieve so sorely, For I love you dearly still: Try to look beyond earth's shadows, Pray to trust our Father's Will. There is work still waiting for you, So you must not idly stand; Do it now while life remaineth You shall rest in Jesus' land. When that work is all completed, He will gently call you Home; Oh, the rapture of that meeting, Oh, the joy to see you come!

Men make houses, women make homes.

If your nose runs and your feet smell, then you're built upside down.

All men with honor are kings but not all kings have honor.

Honor is ... what no man can give ye, and no one can take away. Honor is a mans gift to himself.

When time has run its course, honorable men will triumph.

Women are the heart of honor and we cherish and protect it in them. You must never mistreat a woman, or malign a man. Or stand by and see another do so.

Deserve honor by your own virtue.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

Your kid may be an honors student, but you're still an idiot.

Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have.

Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.

Horn broken. Watch for finger.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.

We who belong to that Profession [of housewife] hold the fate of the world in our hands.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let them down.

Have you hugged someone today?

Man has now conquered almost everything in nature except human nature.

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high a throne one sits on, one is sitting on one's butt.

Overheard in a brokerage: I worry about economists who are so young that they think the Great Depression was ended by Prozac.

Success doesnt require staying awake nights just days.

You cant really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

It takes a baby approximately two years to learn to talk, and between 60 and 75 years to learn to keep his mouth shut.

So you say you're a hypochondriac. How do you know you just don't think you're a hypochondriac?

Hypocrite: Someone who complains that there is too much sex and violence on his VCR.

In the cathedral at Lubek, Germany, near the turn of the century was the following inscription: Ye call me master, and obey me not; Ye call me light, and seek me not; Ye call me way, and walk me not; Ye call me wise, and follow me not; Ye call me fair, and love me not; Ye call me rich, and ask me not; Ye call me eternal, and seek me not; Ye call me gracious, and trust me not; Ye call me noble, and serve me not; Ye call me mighty, and honor me not; Ye call me just, and fear me not; If I condemn you, blame me not.

Some people are mere 'Bible Christians' where all the Christianity remains in the Bible and none of it gets into them.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because its safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

I care not whether I am dying or not; for if I die I shall be with God; if I live, He will be with me. Author Unknown

I wish I was What I was When I wished I was What I am now.

I am not moved, Lord, to love Thee Because of that Heaven Thou has promised me. Nor am I so moved by that fearful Hell, That I would stop offending Thee. But seeing Thee, nailed to a cross and ridiculed, That moves me. Seeing Thy body so wounded ... That moves me. Thy insults and Thy death ... That moves me. In the end, it is Thy love that moves me. For though there were no Heaven, I would love Thee. And though there were no Hell, I would fear Thee.

Q: What's an IBM man-year? A: 730 people trying to get a project done before noon.

Any idea that was not put in by reason cannot be taken out by reason.

Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear all about the men she could've married, and she didn't have to hear all about the dishes his mother cooked. .

Ideas are very much like children your own are wonderful.

Ideas, and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

There is no greater curse than total idleness.

If nobody minds, it doesn't matter.

If nobody smiled and nobody cheered And nobody helped along, If every man looked after himself And good things all went to the strong, If nobody cared just a little for you, And nobody thought about me, And we all stood alone in the battle of life, What a dreary old world this would be!

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

All you need is a can of shaving cream, some liquid nitrogen, and a good imagination.

Intellect marches, but imagination rambles.

My eyes can only see and my ears can only hear. Only my mind can conceive all that which I think I fear. Imagination charms me but often leads me astray. And like a labyrinth sometimes it's hard to see the right way.

Your imagination is your world.

In our imagination, what we behold, we become.

That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Nothing relieves the monotony of a job like finding ways to improve it.

'Your task? To build a better world,' God said. I answered, 'How?' This world is such a large vast place So complicated now. And I so small and useless am. There is nothing I can do.' But God in all his wisdom said, 'Just build a better you.'

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Reasons For Low Activity & Service: 1. Lack of understanding. 2. Lack of acceptance. 3. Lack of obedience. 4. Lack of good works.

Indecision is a form of dependency: you are waiting for somebody to give you an answer.

You tell on yourself by the friends you seek, By the very manner in which you speak, By the way you employ your leisure time, By the use you make of dollar and dime. You tell what you are by the things you wear, By the spirit in which you your burdens bear, By the kind of things at which you laugh, By the records you play on your phonograph. You tell what you are by the way you walk, By the things of which you delight to talk, By the manner in which you bear defeat, By so simple a thing as how you eat. By the books you choose from a well-filled shelf In these ways, and more, you tell on yourself. So really there's not a grain of sense In trying to keep up a false pretense.

Respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, ... and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.

Do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?

Inflation is the one form of taxation which even the weakest government can enforce, when it can enforce nothing else.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the more insidious statistics developed by our government because it directs the hostility of the inflation-weary public toward business and the marketplace instead of toward the cause: government mismanagement of currency and credit.... Real prices are not going up! The value of currency is going down.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

Beware of food products whose ingredients are in quotation marks.

We did not inherit the land from our forefathers- we are borrowing it from our children.

Don't expect anything original from an echo.

Nations and individuals alike must never look solely to outside sources for help. In addition, they must also look within themselves to tap a source of inner strength that can and does enable men and nations to achieve far beyond their ordinary capacities.

Even if the voices are not real, they have some good ideas.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge.

Inspiration: There is no man upon the earth, no foolish man or wise, No man of high or humble birth but somewhere in the skies Can find a star to lead him on if he will lift his eyes.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

The threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence.

The most effective answer to an insult is silence.

Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough.

I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't seem to work.

Life is a series of interrelated delusions.

Intuition: going your way without inquiring about the way.

An investment is anything that costs more than you can possibly afford.

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and vanished.

I'm out of the loop, and that's the way I like it.

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

When you find a job you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life.

The journey is more important than the destination.

Do not judge other people, just snicker at them.

A judge should be about sixty, clean shaven, with white hair, china-blue eyes, and suffer from hemorrhoids so that he will have that concerned look.

We spent all night learning an important lesson. You can't judge a sewer by its manhole cover. No sir. People can be very different under the surface than they might seem. Quiet, mild- mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool. And roaring lions of two-fisted cool just might have some crippling lobster problems! Listen man, it's all crazy down there under the surface. A lost wallet could bite you in half. A bar of soap could save your life. Egad, a disgusting mound of muck just might have some very compelling ideas.

Most of the folks I know who have good luck seem to have good judgment too.

I don't know why. You don't know why. Most likely God doesn't know why, either. It's just Government business, that's all.

Im armd with more than complete steelThe justice of my quarrel.

Justice, n.: A decision in your favor.

Always keep a record of data it indicates you've been working.

Keep cool, but do not freeze.

You just gotta keep going on. Get up, and do your job. Go to work, get through each day, one day at a time, like that. And you hope that one day, you'll get up and it'll hurt a little less. You just gotta just get through it. You just go on. It's that simple.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow perhaps it all will.

Most people know how to keep silent but few of us know when.

One way to stop people from jumping down your throat is to keep your mouth shut.

Persistence may be the key to success, but the key to failure ... is trying to please everybody.

Never kid a kidder.

Kind acts are as bursts of sunshine through broken clouds.

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Let the law of kindness show no limits. Show a loving consideration for all God's creatures.

Never be kissed by a fool, and dont be fooled by a kiss.

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do.

Know yourself first, evaluate others later, and for God's sake don't follow someone else.

Knowing is half the battle.

Our chief wisdom consists in knowing our follies and faults, so that we may correct them.

Knowledge is not what the pupil remembers but what he cannot forget.

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

The more you know, the less you need to show.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it.

Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself.

Do you think the person next to you knows everything you don't know?

What is the greatest labor saving device of today? Tomorrow.

There be one place from which none may ever returnbe he King, or Demon-Spawn, or the Lord of Hell himself. For lack of virtue has exiled them here ... and only that virtue they lack can save them.

Ladder of Achievment 100% I did 90% I will 80% I can 70% I think I can 60% I might 50% I think I might 40% What is it? 30% I wish I could 20% I don't know how 10% I can't 0% I won't

Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly away home, Your house is on fire And your children are gone.

A well maintained landscape with mature trees can increase property values up to 25 percent. Trees can cool houses in the summer. A city lot with 30 percent plant cover provides the equivalent cooling necessary to air condition two moderately sized houses 12 hours a day in the summer.

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.

If God is your partner, make your plans large.

The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or 'corpse flower.' They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.

Many lives fail from inability to deliver the last blow; a workman lifts his iron maul repeatedly upon the plow until the deed is done. Which blow split the rock? They all did, but without the last one the first one and all between would have come to nothing.

If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

If you wait until the last minute, then it only takes a minute.

If you really want the last word in an argument, try saying, I guess youre right.

To know how to laugh is to know how to reign.

Laugh when you can; cry when you must.

Laughter translates into any language.

The laughter of fools does more than weary the wise: it saddens them.

A man can tolerate a woman who doesnt laugh; what his vanity, immediately rejects is a woman who laughs at what he considers the wrong times.

Just because something is a law doesnt make it right.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincolns Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

A lawyer is someone willing to spend every cent you own to prove he's right.

If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.

Why does New Jersey have more criminals but fewer attorneys than New York? New Jersey got first choice.

Lose this day by loiteringit will be the same story tomorrow, and the next more dilatory.

You know what it is that makes a leader? Sacrifice. Sacrifice yourself and men will follow you anywhere

Success for leadership is ... knowing the great art of directing others without their noticing it.

The manager administers, the leader innovates. The manager maintains, the leader develops. The manager relies on systems, the leader relies on people. The manager counts on controls, the leader counts on trust. The manager does things right, the leader does the right thing.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

I Hear, I See, I Do, I Learn: What I hear, I don't remember. What I see, I don't forget. What I do, I learn.

Nobody really finds out what he believes until he begins to instruct his children.

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

I must learn what is true in order to do what is right.

What a wonderful day we've had. You have learned something and, I have learned something. Too bad we didn't learn it sooner. We could have gone to the movies instead.

Learning and then not acting on what you learn is like plowing and then never planting.

The more we learn how to do, the more important it is to learn what to do.

Dont be a slow-learner all of your life.

Sooner or later, a man, if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take. He learns that it doesnt pay to let things get his goat; that he must let some things go over his head like water off a duck

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; To teach and never be weary is love.

Spending a thousand hours in learning good is not enough. But spending less than an hour learning evil is far too long.

There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.

I bit my tongue and stood in line With not much to believe in I bought into what I was sold And ended up with nothing.

Check to see if you any words out.

No man leaves the world in all things as he finds it. The way of life which he was instrumental in forging may go on from century to century as forces for good or evil, doing their work of happiness or misery, blessing or cursing that area that has now lost all record of his memory.

... so the system's crazier than the people that it's trying to help?

True Legends never die.

To your cultured and energetic spirit, leisure is only liberty to choose an occupation.

500,000 lemmings can't be wrong.

Every time you lend money to a friend you damage his memory.

How long you live has nothing to do with how long you are going to be dead.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line. The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Let your work brag about you.

There is nothing like sealing a letter to inspire a fresh thought.

Two men wrote a lexicon, Liddell and Scott; Some parts were clever, but some parts were not. Hear, all ye learned, and read me this riddle, How the wrong par wrote Scott, and the right part wrote Liddell.

There is no liar lying like an angry man.

What do liars do after they die? Lie still.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of thesame side.

Liberty is always unfinished business.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Day by day, mounted on his hobbyhorse, man travels the self-same road, and never recognizes it.

Each life should build a step upon which some who follow can climb a little higher.

I don't care what you love, what your other car is, or what you'd rather be doing.

Is Life worth living? ... he suspects it is, in a great measure, a question of the Liver.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

Life is described in one of four ways: a journey, a battle, a pilgrimage, or a race. Select your own metaphors, but the necessity of finishing is all the same. For if life is a journey, it must be completed. If life is a battle, it must be finished. If life is a pilgrimage, it must be concluded. And if life is a race, it must be won.

Life is like a piano ... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.

Life was not meant to be observed, it was meant to be stolen

Life would have no consequence, If all I saw made perfect sense. Life would not be magical, If all I saw was logical. So I question all I see, To try and solve the mystery. I've been living under delusion, Led astray by my confusion.

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

Not to live through, to live up to.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible.

You live, you love, you lose, you learn, and someday you might laugh.

The effectiveness of a life, like a field, depends not only upon what grows in it but also what is not allowed to grow in it.

This life will prove to be as valuable to us as any in the hereafter.

Savor each hour, dwell not in the past, Live each day fully, it may be your last.

So I tried to be invisible. It's surprisingly possible. You just sit in the back and keep quiet and let the boys shout out the answers, which they will, even if they're wrong. Boys are less afraid of being wrong.

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.

Embrace life.

Draw in the breath of life, and as you breathe, smile.

It is sad indeed to die in your spirit while you live in your body. It is equally tragic to be asleep in life when you should be wide awake to this great world.

I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes.

Live always, my friend, as if there is world enough and time.

Make your life an act of love.

Life is a game. A game consists of freedom, barriers and purposes.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Life is a race between your hand raising the champagne cup to your lips and the ocean's tide rising to swallow you.

Life is a riddle. The solution is written on the backside.

Life is a song. Love is the music.

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.

As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

Life is like a mop ... and sometimes life gets full of dirt and crud and bugs and hair balls and stuff and you, you, you got to clean it out. You got to put it in here and rinse it off and start over again, and sometimes you know, a mop ... a mop is not good enough you, you got to get down there like with a toothbrush, you know, and you get to really scrub to get it clean ... you got to get it off, you got to really try to get it off ... and if that doesn't work, if that doesn't work you can't give up. You got to stand right up, you got to run to a window and say 'Hey these floors are dirty as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!'

The best things in life are messy.

Everything in life is temporary. So if things are going good, enjoy it because it won't last forever. And if things are gong bad, don't worry because it won't last forever either.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Life is there for the taking or the refusing.

Life is tough, and then you die.

Life is the only thing worth living for.

Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

There is meaning in anyones life: A man who had been condemned to a life of forced labor for wrong doings, was shipped to devils island. On the high seas a fire broke out on the steamer, the convict, a strong man, was released from his handcuffs to help and he saved the lives of ten persons. His sentence was commuted for the act of heroism. If one had asked him before if his life was worth saving, he probably would have shook his head.

A life with love must have some thorns, but a life with no love will have no roses.

Every life, every day, is in danger. That's just life

Man despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part.

Life consists of little short moments.

Most people who complain about the high cost of living probably are living too high.

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

When someone stands in the light but does not give it out, then a shadow is created.

The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long and you have burned so very, very brightly.

We're like a real family. Opinionated, argumentative, holding grudges, challenging each other. We challenge each other to be better than we are. That kind of thing doesn't happen at barbecues, at ball games, it happens on the job we're supposed to do. On the case. Put down the murder. The work itself is the most important thing. What we do is important. We speak for those that can no longer speak for themselves. And you're not gonna ever find anything like that anywhere. Not in vice, and not patrolling the grounds at Disneyland.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

There was an old man of Boulogne, Who sang a most topical song. It wasnt the words, Which frightened the birds, But the horrible double entendre!

There was a young lady of Kent, Who said that she knew what it meant When men asked her to dine, Gave her cocktails and wine, She knew what it meantbut she went!

There was a young lady of Lynn Who was so uncommonly thin That when she essayed To drink lemonade, She slipped through the straw and fell in.

There was a young woman named Jenny, Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and rhyme Were perfectly fine But whenever she tried to write any, She always had one line too many.

There was a young lady of Riga, Who rode with a smile on a tiger; They returned from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger!

There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked Why not? It was said that he thought They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny.

Dear Sir, Your astonishments odd: I am always about in the Quad. And thats why the tree Will continue to be, Since observed by Yours faithfully, God.

If we put a limit on the things we will do, we put a limit on the things we can do.

A preacher in the East End of London was speaking of the love of Godso full and boundlessand compared it to the love of a mother, which remains constant and true even when her children sinned. 'Nothing,' he said, 'can destroy the love of a mother.' At the close of the service, when he went out into the cold, rough night, a little girl in rags pulled at his coat with a trembling hand, and said: 'Please, sir, you forgot something tonight. There is something that can take away a mother's love.' 'What do you mean, my child?' he asked. 'Please, sir, liquor will. It took away my mother's love, and I know.'

If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.

Oh what a job it is to get us to listen to ourselves!

That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.

The only reason some people listen to reason is to gain time for rebuttal.

Courtois's Rule: If people listened to themselves more often, they'd talk less.

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said.

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Be eager to listen to others rather than display our own learning.

Be more willing to be impressed than eager to impress.

Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some people ever read.

I want to live forever, or die in the attempt.

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.

The price of living is giving.

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

Bank Loan Policy Customer; Let me get this clear ... since I need a loan, I'm a bad credit risk. But I'd be a good risk if I didn't need the money. Loan Officer: Exactly! Second Loan Officer: And we'd be delighted to make the loan!

If your friend wont lend you fifty dollars, hes probably a close friend.

The tanned appearance of many Londoners is not a sunburn it is rust.

No, life may not be easy, it can be lonely. Full of people we think we know, but barely comprehend. Yet we must always remember: it's the challenges that define us best, and the obstacles that illuminate what we're truly capable of. We must welcome adversity and embrace struggle, and no matter what we get from life, never give less than 100 percent. Of course, at the end of every battle weary day, we fold ourselves into peaceful darkness and find comfort in those gentle words ... good night.

I've had some long nights in the stir. Alone in the dark, with nothing but your thoughts, time can draw out like a blade. That was the longest night of my life

When you are young, women tell you, 'Look but do not touch.' As you get older you hear just the opposite.

May I never miss a rainbow or a sunset because I am looking down.

I'd rather look forward and dream, then look backwards and regret.

If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost.

Man will endure a lot of pain to obtain a little pleasure .

The lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at math.

With most people lovability is not absentit is merely undiscovered.

For two people to please one another they must be very nearly alike, so that they may understand each other, and slightly different, so that they may have something to understand in each other.

Let those love now, who never lov'd before; let those who always lov'd, now love the more.

Love can kill you, itll tear you up. But if you are very lucky it can bring you back together.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give which is everything

Love is eternal as long as it lasts.

My need is not to be on the outside glaring in; its to be in the center with you. To be loved is nice, but not essential. To love someone, that's what makes life worth living.

Sometimes a new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.

What is Love? Its silence when your words would hurt, Its patience when your neighbors curt, Its defense when the scandal flows, Its thoughtfulness for anothers woes, Its promptness when stern duty calls, Its courage when misfortune falls.

A building gets torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that was true about everything families, friends, feelings. But now I know that sometimes, if love proves real, two people who are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.

No one in love is free, or wants to be.

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.

To be loved is to live forever in someone's heart.

Without loving acts, loving words are meaningless.

Many people talk about loving others. When you care about the other person's desires, feelings and well being more than you care about your own, then you know you have love for that person. Until you have that, it's just talk.

True love is the outward demonstration of inward conviction.

We learn to love that to which we give our time.

You say you love me? Well, that and a nickel might buy me a cigar.

Love is what dreams are made of.

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

If you want something very, very badly, Let it go free. If it comes back to you, Its yours forever. If it doesnt, it was never yours to begin with.

Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.

Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.

Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

A self-centered man admitted: 'Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection.'

Ah, some love Paris, And some Purdue. But love is an archer with a low I.Q. A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. So Im in love with New York City.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Disturbed is the condition of my pool. The mouth of my lover is a rosebud. Her breast is a perfume. Her arm is a bough Which offers a delusive seat. Her forehead is a snare of meryu wood.

If you love someone, you must be strong enough to allow them to be.

In the 1600's, a language of flowers developed in Constantinople and in the poetry of Persia. Charles II introduced the Persian poetry to Europe, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought the flower language from Turkey to England in 1716. It spread to France and became a handbook of 800 floral messages known as the Book Le Language des Fleurs. Lovers exchanged messages as they gave each other selected flowers or bouquets. A full red rose meant beauty. Red and white mean unity. Crocus said 'abuse not', while a white rosebud warns that one is too young for love. Yellow roses were for jealousy, yellow iris for passion, filbert for reconciliation and ivy for marriage.

Love your friend with his faults.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it's power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.

Make love, not war; get married and do both!

Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.

It is better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won.

'Tis better to have loved and lost, then paid for it and not liked it.

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Cable is not a luxury, since many areas have poor TV reception.

If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns.

All machines have an innate sense of irresponsibility.

Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power

Whom God wishes to destroy he first deprives of reason. The author of this saying is unknown. Barnes erroneously ascribes it to Euripides.

So let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you're completely sane?

Make one person happy each day, even if it's yourself.

Until you make peace with who you are, youll never be content with what you have.

If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.

If you don't make waves, you're not under way.

My life story? I don't know. I'm making it up as I go along.

Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of a man without his vices.

Sure God created man before woman, but then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.

Man thrives only in the presence of a challenging environment.

Mans measurement A mans no bigger than the way he treats his fellow man! This standard has his measure been since time itself began. Hes measured not by tithes or cruet, high sounding though they be; Nor by the gold thats put aside; nor by his sanctity. Hes measured not by social rank, when characters the test; Nor by his earthly pomp and show, displaying wealth possessed. Hes measured by his justice, right, his fairness at his play, His squareness in all dealings made, his honest upright way. These are his measures, ever near to serve him when they can; For mans no bigger than the way he treats his fellow man!

Deming has said, 'Export anything to a friendly company, except American management.'

There are quite a few common sayings in the business world that are both misleading and unwise in their implications. 'If you want a thing well done, do it yourself' is an example. The man who thinks and talks like that is likely to be so tied up in minor details that he will have no time to manage.

The manner in which it is given is often worth more than the gift.

Theres nothing wrong with having nothing to say unless you insist on saying it.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Before marriage a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.

Jealousy is delightful during courtship, practically essential to the first year of marriage, but after that, Chinese torture.

Kissing is a form of sexual commitment tantamount to marriage.

Marriage isnt a word, its a sentence.

Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license.

Only a fool predicts the fate of a marriage, you can do better with the weather.

The lucky man is the one who is not even invited to the wedding.

The Vital C's in Marriage: Communication Consideration Cooperation Companionship Commitment

Is more fuss made about what the bride is married in than what she is married to?

Told that her grandson had married a kook, grandma said, 'Thats nice. So many girls these days cant boil water.'

Bride: 'Now I have come to the end of all my troubles.' Mother: 'Yes, but you dont know which end.'

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.

Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting.

You don't marry someone you can live with; you marry the person who you cannot live without.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

If you are happily married you are happy; almost no exceptions.

Undoubtedly you have all swallowed the Mary Poppins Myth as peddled in the film, Mary Poppins, but We wish to give YOU the truth. You will all have heard of Adolf Hitler. You may also know that one of the reasons that he came to power was because the Germ

It is nothing less than fantastic the way mathematical odds add up. For instance take the possibility of making a mistake in making a telephone call. Most local exchanges require seven digits, which is accomplished in four or five seconds. The phone has ten digits on it. The mathematical formula of possibilities is ten to the seventh power, which is 10,000,000, or it is 9,999,999 to 1 that you would enter a wrong number if you didn't know what you were doing. Add the four digits to get a long distance number and it becomes 100,000,000,000. Mortality, which fortunately lasts for most of us many times that four or five seconds that it takes to place a telephone call, is also full of chances to make mistakes. Fortunately, too, the path through mortality is well marked, and we can, with exercising care, get to where we all desire to be at the end of mortality.

Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.

Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt.

You are not mature until you expect the unexpected.

The real test of a mans maturity is his ability to make wise adjustments to painful realities.

Achtung! Alles Lookenspeepers Das machine is nicht for gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen, und poppencorken mit spittzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken, sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets, relaxen und watch das blinkenlights.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will go to the stars.

Meekness is great power under complete control.

Any simple problem can be made unsolvable if enough meetings are held to discuss it. .

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who has already left.

To remember anything it must be associated with something you already know. You must see it in your mind. Create action and detail to improve the image. It should be like, near or opposite that which is to be remembered.

If all men told the truth, the tears of the women would create another flood.

There are 3 kinds of men who don't understand women: young, old, & middle-aged.

Mental sunshine will cause the flowers of peace, happiness and prosperity to grow upon the face of the earth. Be a creator of mental sunshine.

Near the end of his life, the Duke [of Wellington] was asked if ...

I've made such a terrible mess of things... and all I wanted to do was rule the universe.

It is undoubtedly true that all citizens capable of bearing arms constitute the reserved military force or reserve militia of the United States as well as the States....

The signification attributed to the term Militia appears from the debates in the [Constitutional] Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.... And further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.

The boundaries of a mans mind are set by himself, and no one else.

The mind forgets, but the heart always remembers.

The mind is like a TV set when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

Minds at rest rust.

If none were sick and none were sad, What service could we render? I think if we were always glad, We scarcely could be tender. Did our beloved never need Our patient ministration, Earth would grow cold and miss indeed Its sweet consolation. If sorrow never claimed our heart, And every wish were granted, Patience would die, and hope depart. Life would be disenchanted.

Take care of the minutes, and the hours and years will take care of themselves.

There is no problem a good miracle can't solve.

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in darkness.

Expect a miracle. Receive the miracle with great humility.

Miracles come after a lot of hard work.

Thou shalt not practice mirth control.

It is now beyond any doubt that cigarettes are the biggest cause of statistics.

I'll always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.

Misers make wonderful ancestors.

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

Some day my ship will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.

We're on a mission from God.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.

If your subordinates are not making an occasional mistake or two, it is a sure sign they are playing it too safe.

In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some.

Mistakes may lead to greatness if we learn from them.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe.

To err is human, but it is against company policy.

To obtain maximum attention, it's hard to beat a good, big mistake.

Even the best of people make mistakes. But we can learn good through evil and progress to goodness and greatness through great mistakes. If my family were perfect, I could not endure the contrast. My weaknesses help me to understand the weaknesses of others.

Learn the art of mixing gentleness with firmness. It is better to have headaches for rebuking when necessary than to have heartaches later.

In Dublins fair city, where girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow, Crying, Cockles and mussels! alive, alive, oh!

I'd rather have a moment of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing.

It is difficult to place a monetary value on the many vital services that trees provide. However, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection calculates that a single tree that lives for fifty years will contribute service worth nearly $200,000 (in 1994 dollars) to the community during its lifetime. This includes providing oxygen ($31,250), recycling water and regulating humidity ($37,000), controlling air pollution ($62,500), producing protein ($2,500), providing shelter for wildlife ($31,250), and controlling land erosion and fertilizing the soil ($31,250).

If money is the root of all evil, I wanna be on the highway to hell!

Money doesn't sleep.

Money the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

It used to be, in days gone by, though now it sounds real funny, that all that foolish spending stopped, when one ran out of money.

Though a man without money is poor, a man with nothing but money is still poorer. Worldly gifts cannot bear up the spirits from fainting and sinking when trials and troubles come, any more than headache can be cured by a golden crown or toothache by a chain of pearls.

If a man runs after money, hes money mad; If he keeps it, hes a capitalist; If he spends it, hes a playboy; If he doesnt get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, hes a parasite; And if he accumulates it after a lifetime of hard work, People call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

Whoever says money can't buy you happiness doesn't know where to shop.

In the western part of the United States the paper money is Federal Reserve Notes issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The bills have an identifying L on them. One day a husband had a paper dollar in his hand and said to his wife: 'This is a new one. It hasn't an L on it. It has an H. Where's it from?' 'I don't know,' replied his wife. 'I don't read money. I only spend it.' Money is money and is meant to be used. But we wonder how many apply that money attitude to life itself. How many just spend life; spend it without pausing occasionally to read its meaning?

Money cant buy real friendshipfriendship must be earned. Money cant buy a clear consciencesquare dealing is the price tag. Money cant buy the glow of good healthright living is the secret. Money cant buy happinesshappiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money cant buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the treesthese are as free as the air we breath. Money cant buy inward peacepeace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money cant buy a good charactergood character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.

Dont keep your money in an undarned sock.

Wife to husband: The only explanation I have is that my money self-destructs.

When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.

The moral majority is neither.

A straight line is shortest in morals as well as in geometry.

Nothing which is morally wrong can ever be politically right.

Some people put more emphasis on being socially correct than morally right.

Each person setting his own moral standard leads to the same kind of confusion we would have if each driver made his own traffic rules.

After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

The more you do of what youve done, the more youll have of what youve got.

The more you know, the more there is to know.

The morning sun rises to greet him, and in its low, warm light he stands like some sort of pagan god, or deposed tyrant, staring out over the city he's sworn to... stare out over. And it's evident, just by looking at him that he's got some pretty heavy things on his mind.

A mothers hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

[The Prajnaparmita, Mother of the Bodisattvas, Mother of the Buddhas ... ] She is a source of light, and from everyone in the triple world. She removes darkness.... She brings light to the blind, She brings light, so that all fear and distress may be forsaken. She has gained the Five Eyes, and She shows the path to all beings. She Herself is an organ of vision.

Potential remains potential until it is motivated.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

The best way to bluff is to keep your mouth shut.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

'Moveor Immotus.' 'Motionless I am moved.'

Our Lady of Blessed Accelleration.

I usually get inside the car so I can sign the check on the dashboard.

'I have always loved you.' (Nazi driver to Nazi leader)

Merciful gods, how you love your precious guilt.

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

You know one of the ways that movies are still better than playback? Because the music comes up, there's credits, and you always know when it's over.

It wasn't murder ... it was a civic improvement

Kill a few people and you're a murderer. Kill a million and you become a conqueror.

Murphy would have loved computers.

Those who hear not the music ... think the dancers mad.

How many of us ever stop to think Of music as a wondrous magic link With God; taking sometimes the place of prayer, When words have failed us 'neath the weight of care' Music, that knows no country, race or creed; But gives to each according to his need.

Halfway up the stairs is the stair where I sit. There isn't any other stair quite like it. It's not at the bottom, It's not at the top, but this is the stair where I always stop.

It floats around, it's got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has.

It seems confusing that narrow-minded people are thick headed.

If you like the post office, you are going to LOVE national health care.

Only nature does great things for nothing.

Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.

I feel the need; the need for speed!

I don't need to know your secret. I don't need to know your vices I don't need to know your past All I need is to be needed.

There are two trees, each yielding its own fruit. One of them is negative ... it grows from lack of selfworth and its fruits are fear, anger, envy, bitterness, sorrow and any other negative emotion. Then there is the tree of positive emotions. Its nutrients include selfforgiveness and a correct self concept. Its fruits are love, joy, acceptance, selfesteem, faith, peace ... and other uplifting emotions.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you

In a negotiation, he who cares less, wins.

Don't expect your neighbor to be better than your neighbor's neighbor.

Scientific progress has made everybody in the world neighbors which means we have lots more neighbors we must love.

Neutrinos have bad breadth.

Never assume, seldom deny, always distinguish.

Never desert a comrade in need, in danger, or in trouble.

Too much is never enough.

Never give up, but know when to quit.

We ran out of new ideas somewhere around 1978, since then we've been repeating ourselves. Same songs, same movies, same clothes, even the same crimes. Like this Robie guy, no imagination. He's just part of the rhythm and the rhyme of all this repeating. This is 1996, here comes the millennium. But people are nervous, they're on edge, they're jumpy. This is supposed to be something new. But we can't look that in the face, can we? So what do we do? We grab a little something from one year in the fifties and a little of something else from some other year, maybe late sixties. We think we're creating something new and different, but really, all we're doing is just repeating the same old ... nothing. We're all copycats.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

This paper contains much that is new and much that is true. Unfortunately, that which is true is not new and that which is new is not true.

If you want any part of your life changed, forget about what youre going to do 'this year' and begin with this moment.

I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. (Anonymous Chinese Student), during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989

God sent a truck. Explaining how God had answered his prayers after a Brinks truck overturned on the highway, spilling $400,000 of money, which was carted off by local residents, 1997.

Body odor can result in the loss of otherwise happy customers.

Hamm eggs on USA, makes swiss cheese of Danish. after Mia Hamm and the US team defeated Denmark in the Women'sWorld Cup, 1999

Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad.

It's like the coming of civilization.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Welcome to the next level!

With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind me I walk With beauty above me and about me, I walk, It is finished in beauty It is finished in beauty

I do not feel any age yet. There is no age to the spirit.

If we always do what we've always done, then we'll always get what we've always gotten.

I cried because I had no shoes Until I met a man who had no class.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

I cried because I had no shoes Until I met a man who had no feet.

There's no government like no government.

The man who makes no mistakes generally doesn't make anything.

You have no warning when your life's about to change. No clap of thunder. No sign. Maybe a premonition, a fear, but we're scared most of the time, aren't we? So how do you know when it means something? How do you know when you're just not being paranoid?

If there is no wind, row.

Nobody knows what a boy is worth, a boy at his work or play; a boy who whistles around the place or laughs in an artless way. Nobody knows what a boy is worth, and the world must wait and see, for every man in an honored place is a boy that used to be. Nobody knows what a boy is worth, a boy with a face aglow, for hid in his heart there are secrets deep not even the wisest know. Nobody knows what a boy is worth, a boy with his bare, white feet, so have a smile and a kindly word for every boy you meet.

I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I'm perfect.

You non-conformists are all alike

If you work on a nonexistent problem, there are much fewer obstacles to overcome.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson. You find the present tense and the past perfect.

Nostalgia is recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.

Nothing is impossible for the man who will not listen to reason.

And who ever said there's nothing new under the sun Never thought much about individuals But he's dead anyways.

One disadvantage of having nothing to do is you cant stop and rest.

There's nothing to do anymore. Everything decent has been done. All the great themes have been used up, turned into theme parks. So I don't really find it exactly cheerful to be living in the middle of a totally exhausted decade where there's nothing to look forward to and no one to look up to.

There is nothing wrong with you that some Prozac and a polo mallet wouldn't handle.

Man can never be happy if he does not nourish his soul as he does his body.

Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.

When you obey your superior, you instruct your inferior.

If it works, it's obsolete.

Whatever impedes a man but doesn't stop him, aids his progress.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

How often we are offended by not being offered something we do not really want.

Oh, death, if thou a being art, draw near, And let me clasp thee, for I hold thee dear. I shall extort eternal life from thee; Thou canst but grasp this worn out dress from me.

Old too soon, smart too late.

Your evening has come, but though it is so, the lamps of your intellect firmly glow As they did in your youth, and all who will may sit at your feet and hear what the still, small voice has carved in your mind through years Of patient study and toil and tears.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.

Old stories are like old friends ... they should be visited every so often to see how they're doing.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

On the days that are summer sweet and full of a thousand dreams, I will love you. On the days when thunder and rain come dashing against our hopes, I will love you. On the days when we share a quiet world of contentment, I will love you. On all the days, through all the seasons of our lives, I will give you my heart ... I will give you my love.

Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.

Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.

The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.

You have two ends in life: one for sitting and one for thinking. Heads you win, tails you lose.

One hundred years from now It will not matter What kind of car I drove, What kind of house I lived in, How much money I had in my bank account, Nor what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better Because I was important in the life of a child.

One doesn't get chances one takes chances.

If it isn't one thing, it's another, unless it's neither.

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.

Only fools can be certain; it takes wisdom to be confused.

There is no They, Only Us.

Many men boast of having an open mind, when it is only vacant.

Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

The good you do is not lost though you forget it.

The trick is to hold opinions without letting opinions hold you.

You're entitled to your own opinion, even if it is wrong.

It's the man who waits for his ship to come in who's always missing the boat.

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

If you don't hear opportunity knocking, find another door.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Once an opportunity has passed, it cannot be caught.

Taking the line of least resistance still makes both men and rivers crooked.

The Optimistic Frog Two frogs fell in a deep bowl, One was an optimistic soul, But the other took the gloomy view. 'We shall drown,' he cried without more adieu. So with a last despairing cry He flung up his legs and said good-bye. Quoth the other frog with a merry grin, 'I cant get out, but I wont give in; Ill just swim around till my strength is spent, Then will I die the more content.' Bravely he swam till it would seem His struggles began to churn the cream. On top of the butter at last he stopped, And out of the bowl he gaily hopped. What of the moral? Tis easily found: If you cant hop out, keep swimming around.

The silver lining is always easier to find in someone else's cloud.

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

They found a little courage That simmered in the sun. They blended it with patience And just a spice of fun. They poured in hope and laughter And then with a sudden twist They stirred it all together And made an Optimist.

Optimists are nostalgic about the future.

Without order, nothing can grow or expand.

In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.

Only some of us can learn by other people's mistakes. The rest of us have to be the other people.

Why not go out on the limb? That's where all the fruit is.

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

An overcast sky doesn't mean a dark horizon.

Overcoming challenges 1. Knowledge of self 2. Knowledge of others 3. Desire to work 4. Desire to learn 5. Ability to say :Yes' and 'No' 6. Ability to pick friends 7. Turn back on bad advice 8. Recognize inner beauty 9. Persistence 10. Avoid temptation

Soaks my skin through to the bone Pain is nothing that a downpour won't erase Rain you can't hold on to it A treasure you cannot frame Rain somehow I'm drawn to it I feel engaged, one and the same When heaven's dressing beads off my face The pain is nothing that a downpour won't erase

It's very hard to let someone in when you've caused so much pain. To risk the emotion.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I finally realized that it wasn't Starfleet that I was trying to get away from. I was trying to escape the pain I felt, after my wife's death. I thought I could take the uniform, wrap it around the pain and toss them both away. But it doesn't work like that. Running may help for a little while, but sooner or later the pain catches up with you, and the only way to get rid of it is to stand your ground.

Is it that they fear the pain of death? Or could it be they fear the joy of life?

Pain stayed so long, I said to him today, 'I will not have you with me any more,' I stamped my foot and said, 'Be on your way,' And paused there, startled at the look he wore. 'I, who have been your friend,' he said to me; 'I, who have been your teacherall you know Of understanding love, of sympathy And patience I have taught you. Shall I go?'

Teacher's Conference, 1703. Students today depend upon paper too much. They don't know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can't clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper? Students today can't prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend upon their slates which are more expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write!

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

When a parent decides to act like one of the children and begins to scream and yell at the child, all opportunity for teaching is lost.

Its too bad when parents think their children can do no wrong but its better than thinking they can do no right.

I don't know about you, but my parents are always right.

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Passivity is the culprit. Think of yourself as the victim, you become the victim.

Learn from the past but don't dwell on it.

Footprints past, of both living and dead, shall determine the scope of the journey ahead....

May the best from your past be the worst of your future.

The year, 1972, was a memory, like it or not. The funny thing is, looking back now, what I remember most is how it ended. So maybe that New Years Eve 1972, didn't work out exactly like we had planned. There was heartbreak we didn't anticipate and events we couldn't have imagined. Still, it wasn't all bad. So maybe there was a message in it all. The future was calling us and no matter what, there was no turning back now.

[about the past] ... the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Let the past and its bad habits be done with.

Time past is gone, thou canst not it recall; Time is thou hast, improve that portion small; Time future is not, and may never be. Time present is the only time for thee.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

The path that leads to happiness is so narrow that two can't walk on it unless they become one.

Patience is the ability to put up with people you'd like to put down.

Patience is what you require when the fish are not hungry.

Patience and perseverance surmount every difficulty.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Answer to the prayer of a man experiencing great trials: Be still and take it! ... and learn patience, humility and gratitude.

We should be patient with everyone, but above all with ourselves.

If he'd just pay me what he's paying them to stop me robbing him, I'd stop robbing him

Peace is not a season, it is a way of life.

The price of peace is righteousness.

There will be peace when we begin to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

For people who like peace and quiet; a phoneless cord.

An old parson was riding along one day, and met with an Irishman, and said, 'Sir, have you made your peace with God?' Pat replied, 'Faith, and I've never had a falling out.'

The pecan (Carya illinoensis) is native to the Americas and naturally distributed in the Mississippi Valley and the river valleys of Texas. The Indians introduced pecans to the white man by trading for tools and trinkets. In this way, the traders moved the pecan from its native range to the eastern states. The first pecan nursery was established in 1772 and from this small beginning, pecan production has grown into a multimillion dollar industry in Florida and South Georgia.

The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind.

Well, here's to the pencil pushers. May they all die of lead poison.

People are basically good.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

People who do things that count, never stop to count them.

People who like others are people others like.

There are people so near nothing that they are everywhere without being seen.

Isnt it time we all paid more attention to the good people? The bad ones get publicity enough and its the good ones who make our country good.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

You're all very quiet for people running for their lives

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

A perennial is a plant that would have come back year after year if it had survived.

You still don't know what you're dealing with do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility... I admire its purity, a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality

This is not a perfect world. In a perfect world, evil loses

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

The Church is for the perfecting of the members not a rest home for the perfect.

The closest anyone ever comes to perfection is on a job application form.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Past performance produces present privileges.

The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.

Success comes with heartfelt persistence.

There is no point at which having arrived we can remain.

Nurse to husband waiting outside the maternity ward: 'Its a person.'

Person man, person man Hit on the head with a frying pan Lives his life in a garbage can Person man Is he depressed or is he a mess? Does he feel totally worthless? Who ever came up with person man Degraded man, person man.

If there's something I can't stand, it's a person who talks while I'm interrupting.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Hes the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.

The reason many persons dont see things in the right perspective is that they are always looking for an angle.

I only smile in the dark My only comfort is the night gone black I didn't accidentally tell you that I'm only happy when it rains.

If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?

OK, so you've got a Ph.D. Now, don't touch anything.

The six phases of a project: 1. Enthusiasm 2. Disillusionment 3. Panic 4. Search for the Guilty 5. Punishment of the innocent 6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants

If a pickpocket stands in a crowd of saints, all he sees are their pockets.

Don't give other people a piece of your mind unless you can afford it.

Sometimes piety crowds out good humor and lofty culture.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.

As we honor our pioneers, let us put less emphasis upon the physical, great as those hardships were, and remember the spiritual, for that is what made them great. That is the torch they hand us!

Pity is reserved for those who have no fight left in them.

Nothing of importance is ever done without a plan.

Plan in marble if you would work in stone.

Plan your work. Work your plan.

The Lord gives us a plan to follow. It is outlined in His commandments. And all those commandments are designed to build stability within us. We are not to excuse our failures and weaknesses: We are not to say we are made the way we are, And thereby justify our sins. The Lord expects us to rise above our weakness, become strong, and pattern ourselves after Him.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes.

No planning we eat, sleep and avoid eighteen-wheelers.

To do great, important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time.

The past cannot be changed; the future is still in your power.

If I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant an apple tree.

Trees can reduce utility bills (air conditioning in summer, heating in winter) when planted properly: Heating: Using trees as windbreaks allows savings of 10% 20%. Cooling: Shading windows and walls can lower AC costs by 25% 50%.

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing, just to give yourself something to do.

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

Poetry helps heal and discovery.

Smith & Wesson: The ultimate point & click user interface.

I became a policeman because I wanted to be in a business where the customer is always wrong.

The problem with political jokes is that they get elected.

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

Why are we surprised when politicians play politics? It's not like they are supposed to be real adults ... they are, after all, politicians and don't have real jobs and aren't playing around with their money.

If you think it's easy to be a politician, try to straddle a fence and keep both ears to the ground at the same time.

Political promises go in one year and out the other.

Politicians know it's not necessary to fool all the people all of the time just during election campaigns.

Politicians will always be there when they need you.

We may have to change our political terminology to enable us to say a candidate won by a mudslide.

Many folks seem to know what the president should do but not what they themselves should do.

Dont get so busy exercising your right to dissent that you neglect your duty to contribute.

The only thing we will ask of you as a public official is to vote for what you feel in your heart is right.

Television brings us the political races, So candidates can show us both of their faces.

The poorest man is not the one without a cent, but the one without a dream.

Why do plants have such a positive impact on us? There are a number of reasons, including: They have a predictable cycle of life that provides comfort in our time of rapid change. They are responsive but nonthreatening. They form no opinions or judgments about their caregivers. They soften our manmade environment. They enable us to change or improve our environment. They promote relaxation and tranquility.

(Think of one's self as a teakettle) : Though up to it's neck in hot water, It continues to sing.

Temporal possessions may vanish as the dew.

Driving their new car home from detroit, the neighbors arrived last night brag and baggage.

Power corrupts isn't that what it's for?

Power doesn't corrupt people. People corrupt power.

The Constitution does not leave to speculation who is to administer the laws enacted by Congress; the President, it says, 'shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed'.... The Brady Act effectively transfers this responsibility to thousands of [law enforcement officials] in the 50 States.... The power of the President would be subject to reduction, if Congress could act as effectively without the President as with him, by simply requiring state officers to execute its laws.

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

You know, I got a daughter, she lives in Michigan. When she was six years old we took her to the circus, one minute she's laughing at the clowns, you know, getting out of the Volkswagen. The next minute she's telling me that her stomach hurts. Soon she's

In this world of misery, disease, old age, and death, there is no other protection, refuge or help than our own practice of the truth. Others are powerless; as we sow we reap.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Praise is like champagne; it should be served while it is still bubbling.

Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!

Every morning, lean thine arms awhile Upon the window-sill of Heaven, And gaze upon the Lord ... Then with that vision in thy heart, Turn strong to meet the day.

Many prayers remain unanswered, pending endorsement of our deeds.

Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.

O Father, whose voice I hear in the woods and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me. I am a man before you, one of your many children. I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunsets. Make my hands respect the things you have made, my ears sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise so that I may know the things you have taught my people, the lessons you have hid in every leaf and rock. I seek strength, Father not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself. Make me ever ready to come to you with clean hands and a straight eye, so that when life fades like a fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.

O Goddess Earth, O allenduring wide expanses! Salutation to thee. Now I am going to begin cultivation. Be pleased, O virtuous One.

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.... I asked for health, that I might do greater things I was given infirmity, that I might do better things... I asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might be wise... I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.... I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life I was given life that I might enjoy all things.... I got nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most richly blessed!

I doubt if Gods answer to a prayer is influenced by its literary quality.

Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing.

A young boy, ready for bed, interrupted a family gathering in the living room. 'I'm going up to say my prayers now. Anybody want anything?'

Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies. If you wish me to eat them instead, please give me no sign whatsoever.... Thy will be done. (munch, munch, munch)

Prayers are the one thing that never come back stamped 'return to sender.'

Earned a precarious living by taking in one anothers washing.

It's not a single idea, but many ideas and attitudes, including a reverence for nature and a preference for country life; a desire for maximum personal self-reliance and creative leisure; a concern for family nurture and community cohesion; a certain hostility toward luxury; a belief that the primary reward of work should be well-being rather than money; a certain nostalgia for the supposed simplicities of the past and an anxiety about the technological and bureaucratic complexities of the present and the future; and a taste for the plain and functional.

Our best preparation for tomorrow is the proper use of today.

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Be prepared to listen; listen to be prepared.

He's acting alone. He's cut off from his chain of command. He's exhibiting symptoms of pressure-induced psychosis, and he has a nuclear weapon. So as a personal favour to me, would you lay off him?

Anything worth anything has a price. When I'm standing next to your deathbed, looking as young as I look right now, and I see that fear in your eyes at the moment of death, then tell me the price is too stiff.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

Put self-praise in the same class as anything else you get for nothing.

When a man boasts about what hell do tomorrow we like to find out what he did yesterday.

If you feel you have no faults, that makes another one.

It takes a big man to say, 'I was wrong.'

Let your pride pardon what your nature needs, the salutary censure of a friend.

Take pride in how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go.

Are you interested in 'doing well' or doing Good?

I built a shipa great large ship, And Pride stood at the helm And steered for Fame, that wondrous land, And Wealthbright, golden realm! And Pride was captain, mate, and crew, And launched my ship with much ado. 'Now go, my ship, my great, great ship, And laugh the winds to scorn.' And lo, my ship came back to me All broken, bent. and torn! I built a ship, a lovely ship, With modern wings of white, And thought not of bright Wealth or Fame, But Service rose in sight. Love was my captain, mate, and crew And launched my ship without ado. 'Now go, my ship, my lowly ship, Thy modest wings unfold.' And lo, my ship came dancing back Just weighted down with gold!

It was such a primitive country we didn't even see any joggers.

A local politician was once enmeshed in his own oratory. Said he: 'Build a chain-link fence around the winter's supply of summer weather; skim the clouds from the sky with a teaspoon; catch a thundercloud in a saucepan; break a hurricane to harness; quiet and soothe an earthquake; lasso an avalanche; pin a napkin on the crater of an active volcanobut never expect to see me false to my principles.'

Principles become modified in practice by facts.

The three primary principles of wisdom: obedience to the laws of God, concern for the welfare of mankind, and suffering with fortitude all the accidents of life.

Privacy is essential to Liberty.

Get out instead of hibernation, be part of a hyper nation.

'I must do something' will always solve more problems than 'Something must be done.'

Successful Problem Solving: 1. Identify the problem. 2. Gather data. 3. Test possible solutions. 4. Select best possible solution. 5. Put solution into action. 6. Monitor and improve on it.

You want to 'see' people without problems? Go to the cemetery.

Every problem existing between human beings may be solved by Christs teachings. Why not try them?

A Systems Engineer saw a new perspective on his career: Though we think of ourselves as problem solvers our real mission is to seek opportunities.

If you're not having problems, you are missing an opportunity for growth.

Its hard to remember the goal to drain the swamp when we are up to our waist in alligators.

Dont ever let your problems become an excuse.

If a person lacks problems he will invent them.

I'm going to stop procrastinating ... once I get around to it.

Eternity is an endless chain of nows.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting it off.

One minute of do it now, is of more value than ages of put it off.

We are like an M.D. who is forever washing and never performing surgery.

I'D RATHER BE: I'd rather be a Could-Be If I could not be an Are; For a Could-Be is a May-Be, With a chance of touching par. I'd rather be a Has-Been Than a Might-Have-Been, by far; For a Might-Have-Been has never been, But a Has' was once an Are.

Infant Prodigy: a child with highly imaginative parents.

Profanity never did any man the least good, no man is the richer, or happier, or the wiser for it. It commends no one to any society. It is disgusting to the refined; abominable to the good, insulting to those with whom we associate; degrading to the mind, unprofitable, needless, and injurious to society.

Teach your children and those with whom you associate that using profanity is against the will of our Father in Heaven. Taking the Lords name in vain is breaking one of Gods commandments.

What should not be heard by little ears should not be said by big mouths.

If you want to know when to sell, find out when I am buying.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

I write all my critical routines in assembler, and my comedy routines in FORTRAN.

Progress is a simple thing And all that it requires Is a certain moral blindness To the evil that transpires.

Most people are in favor of progress, its the changes they dont like.

Heaven is not reached by a single bound. Be anxiously engaged in a good cause.

All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made.

Vows made in storms are forgot in calms.

Prosperity always commits suicide; resurrection is born of depression.

Everything you do or say is public relations.

Pull yourself together is seldom said to anyone who can.

What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter? Pumpkin pi.

Punctuality is disappointing if no one is there to appreciate it.

The purpose of organizations is to stop things from happening.

Once a python weighs more than half the weight of his keeper, the potential of dangerous constriction becomes very real; snakes of this size should not be handled alone. Once a python outweighs his keeper, fatal constriction is at the discretion of the python.

Quality is like buying oats. If you want nice, clean, fresh oats, you must pay a fair price. However, if you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse ... that comes a little cheaper.

Question authority, but raise your hand first.

The one thing worse than a quitter is the one who is afraid to begin.

Life is like quotations. Sometimes, it makes you laugh. Sometimes, it makes you cry. Most of the time, you don't get it.

In order to carry any amount of weight, it seems that a quotation must be from an author of national or universal importance. Nevertheless, one often finds, hidden away in an obscure paragraph in a newspaper or magazine a gem of wisdom that deserves much greater prominence.

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

It takes both the sun and the rain to make a beautiful rainbow.

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

The person who does not read has no advantage over the person who cannot read.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

The real measure of wealth is how much youd be worth if you lost all your money.

Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol.

'Reality' is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

The universe rearranges itself to accommodate your picture of reality.

You create your own reality.

There is a difference between a reason that sounds good and good reason.

Recessions are amazing corrective mechanisms for weeding out the redundant, the inefficient, the weak links of an economy.

Sample recommendation letter: Dear Search Committee Chair, I am writing this letter for Mr. John Smith who has applied for a position in your department. I should start by saying that I cannot recommend him too highly. In fact, there is no other student with whom I can adequately compare him, and I am sure that the amount of mathematics he knows will surprise you. His dissertation is the sort of work you don't expect to see these days. It definitely demonstrates his complete capabilities. In closing, let me say that you will be fortunate if you can get him to work for you. Sincerely, A. D. Visor (Prof.)

If we have aught against another, we will reconcile our differences before we worship at his (Gods) alter.

It is always easy to reform the city if you live in the country.

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

Can't accept you reject changes around you You persist to resist anything new Rationalize with some lies your dated views The state you're in you got nothing to win but everything to lose

Never try to guess your wifes size. Just buy her anything marked 'petite' and hold on to the receipt.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

Some say its holding on that makes you strong; sometimes its letting go.

God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends.

I've tried relaxing, but I don't know I feel more comfortable tense.

Watson's Law: The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it.

You must do your own practicing of religion a man doesnt become a great runner by having someone else train for him.

I am dancing in a bright beam of light ... I am remembering love

That great word repentance has five 'rs': 1) recognition, 2) remorse, 3) resolution, 4) restitution, and 5) reformation.

The Lord hates a quitter, But he doesnt hate him, son, When a quitter is quitting What he shouldnt have begun.

No matter what your past has been you have a spotless future.

A new day could be a wonderful new start for us if we could keep from being our same old selves.

A fellow whos planning to reform is one step behind he ought to quit planning and get on with the job.

A reputation is the reward for what one achieved yesterdaybut it has to be earned again today and tomorrow.

You cannot build a reputation on the things you are going to do.

Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him.

Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; Character is your face. Reputation is what men say your are; character is what God knows you are. Reputation is what you need to get a job; character is what you need to keep it. Reputation is what comes over you from without; character is what rises up within. Reputation is what you have when you come to town; character is what you have when you go away. Reputation is what is chiseled on your tombstone; character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God.

A mans poor reputation may be the fault of others but not his poor character.

Be resourceful: where theres a will, theres a way.

People who try to command respect are wasting their time. Respect cant be commanded. It has to be earned.

It has been written: To the cynic the body is no more than a tenement of clay. To the poet, a palace of the soul. To the physician, an all too ailing hulk. The psychiatrist sees it as a housing for the mind and personality. The geneticist sees it as a per

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

RESPONSIBILITY Can you put the spider's web in its place, that once has been swept away? Can you put the apple again on the bough, which fell at our feet today? Can you put the lily-cup back on the stem, and cause it to live and grow? Can you mend the but

Yes, we must not forget that our responsibility is to look after the one behind the man in front of us.

The heart must have its time of snow ... to rest in silence, and then to grow.

Some confuse motion with action, words with deeds, promises with deliveries, excuses with results.

Revenge is like a boomerang. Although for a time it flies in the direction in which it is hurled, it takes a sudden curve, and returning hits your own head the heaviest blow of all.

If a reward is tangibly real enough, a person will work harder to receive that reward than he will to avoid punishment.

Having money is a poor way to be rich.

The riches of a kingdom do not consist so much in the fullness of its treasury as in the fertility of its soil and the industry of its people.

The gal who thinks no man is good enough for her may be right but she is more often left.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

It's the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it

Every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes.

Ted Kennedy has killed more people with his car than I have with my gun.

That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated Militia composed of the body of the people trained to arms is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free State....

The righteous life is the abundant one. The real burdens are those of wickedness, for eventually the wages of sin will be death.

If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there be beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

To grow, risk.

We take these risks not to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping us. We rarely say how we feel until it's too late. When scaling a wall, the will is more important than the skill.

You cannot sit on the road to success for if you do, you will get run over.

The shortest distance between two points is usually under repair.

Go ahead, rock the boat. The only people who care are the ones who can't swim.

The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.

There's always room for improvement; It's the biggest room in the house.

A rose only becomes beautiful and blesses others when it opens up and blooms. Its greatest tragedy is to stay in a tight-closed bud, never fulfilling its potential.

Eighty percent of the world's rose species come from Asia.

Pray your gods who rule you by your fears for they are quick and ruthless punishers.

When I was very young, I went to a grade school in New York City called Saint Bart's for Boys. We used to call it the fortress, that's because the outside of the building looked like a medieval fort. But in fact, it was an oasis, right in the middle of my neighborhood. The brothers and sisters were very strict, you know, my butt caught the bamboo more than a few times. But I didn't hate it. I didn't hate it. Those rules made me feel important, they made me feel worth protecting. I felt safe. And then I went to a Jesuit high school, Saint Ignatius. The Jesuits taught me how to think, I haven't felt safe since.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle When the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Too many folks go through life running from something that isn't after them.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Defendit numerus: There is safety in numbers.

In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.

Maybe in this mixed up, topsy turvy world of ours they should take all the 'sane' people off the streets and lock them up and let all the psychopaths out of the asylums to run the world.

Satan is an horizontal extremist.

Work hard and save your money and when you are old, you will be able to buy the things only the young can enjoy.

Saying nothing often shows a fine command of language.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Anything scarce is valuable; praise for example.

Life wounds all of us. At best there is sorrow enough to go round. Yet because the deepest wounds are those of the soul and hidden to mortal sight, we keep hurting each other day by day, inflicting wounds that time mercifully scars over. But the scars rem

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.

Science opens to us the book of nature; comedy, the book of human nature.

Scientists develop models rather than divining truth, they provide services to engineering rather than a priesthood, and they clarify and formalize they models they build.

But isn't hate just scorned love?

Dont just read scripture, study scripture.

Get at the root of things: The gold mines of the scriptures are not the topsoil; you must open a shaft. The precious diamonds of experience are not picked up in the roadway; their secret places are far down. Get down into the vitality, the solidity, the veracity, the divinity of the Word of God, and seek to possess with it the inward workings of the Spirit.

Interpreting Scripture: 1. Who said it and to whom? 2. When was it said? 3. What is the purpose? 4. What does it mean?

Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.

'In Western languages the names of the four seasons became complete only a few centuries ago. Words for winter and summer appear quite early but in English 'spring' came to be used as the name of the season as late as the sixteenth century, and in German 'fruhjahr', 'spring' appeared about the same time. Similarly, in India 'hemanta(winter) and vasanta(spring)' appear in Sanskrit literature very early, while other seasonal terms come much later.'

The second mouse gets the cheese.

Only one can keep a secret.

The secret of life is that there is no secret of life.

Secular education can make men clever, but it cannot make them good.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.

The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree.... The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky.

A person who sows seeds of kindness enjoys a perpetual harvest.

If everything seems to be going well ... you obviously don't know what the hell is going on!

Few blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities.

A tree never hits an automobile except in selfdefense.

Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.

Learning is facilitated additionally by a healthy self image ... which permits an individual to cope with change and crisis including crisis in self esteem.

If you want to be somebody, somebody really special, be yourself.

Timidity is mistrust of self, and proceeds not from modesty but from conceit. A man is timid because he is afraid of not appearing to his best advantage.

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.

Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.

The trouble with most self-made men is that they stopped too soon.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

The person who sings his own praise is probably a soloist.

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Most people one may say the best sort of people greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however badly, than to have things done for them, however well.

To value ourselves, we must feel that our efforts are valued by others.

The person who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed. If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you make a very small package.

It may be that the most benefit occurs when something is dealt with for its own sake, rather than for the attainment of some external goal. If one is too eager to wring profit from an experience, the potential slips through his grasping fingers.

I don't want the world, I just want your half.

Salesman who spends all his time in chair, Always remain on bottom.

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

The most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables us to see instantly what is not safe to laugh at.

Sentimentality is no indication of a warm heart. Nothing weeps more copiously than a chunk of ice.

Our voluntary service God requires.

The greatest among you is he who becomes the servant of all. see Matthew 20:27

You don't know where your shadow will fall.

There is a shady side of life, And a sunny side as well, And 'tis for everyone to say On which he'd choose to dwell; For everyone unto himself Commits a grievous sin, Who bars the blessed sunshine out, And shuts the shadows in. The clouds may wear their saddest robes, The sun refuses to smile, And sorrow, with her troop of ills, May threaten us the while; But still the cheerful heart has power A sunbeam to provide, And only those whose souls are dark, Dwell on life's shady side. Then wear a happy heart, my friend, And fix your faith above; A Heavenly Father may afflict, But does it all in love. And they who strive to do His will, And read His word aright, With songs of triumph on their lips, Walk always in the light.

Shamrock of foliage, Shamrock of entwining, Shamrock of the prayer, Shamrock of my love. Shamrock of my sorrow, Plant of Patrick of the virtues, Shamrock of the Son of Mary, Journey's end of the peoples. Shamrock of grace, Of joy, of the tombs, It were my wish in death You should grow on my grave.

People don't grow wealthy or powerful through virtue or intelligence or hard work, though those things do figure in. They grow wealthy and powerful because they know how to take what's in front of them and shape it, and use it.

That which a man willingly shares, he keeps. That which he selfishly keeps, he looses.

Neglect or refusal to share cuts communication between a man and his soul.

If you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Adam Had em.

He's got a client who shot his wife in the head six times. Six times, can you imagine it? I mean, even twice would be overdoing it, don't you think?

Don't wait for people to be friendly. Show 'em how.

Siberia is a winter wonderland.

This kitchen closed because of illness sick of cooking.

Why does everything have to be so significant? Finding significance in your life doesn't necessarily make you happy.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Silence is not golden: it is yellow.

The beginning of wisdom is silence. The second step is listening.

So far the only successful substitute for brains is silence.

Part of the problem today is that we have a surplus of simple answers and a shortage of simple problems.

The Seven Deadly Sins that will destroy us are: Knowledge without character. Business without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Pleasure without conscience. Politics without principle. Wealth without work.

We dont have to try sin to discover its bad for us any more than we need to take poison to learn to leave it alone.

There is no sin we can be tempted to commit, but we shall find a greater satisfaction in resisting than in committing.

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Smile It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.

'The shortest distance between new friends is a smile.

When you smile, people are drawn to you. When you frown, you repel them.

When the smoke alarm goes off, dinner is served.

The only beneficial thing in smoking is that it repels gnats and mosquitoes, which only proves that you don't have to be big to be smart.

I never suffer any of my family to kill those little innocent animals called striped snakes, for they do me much service in destroying grasshoppers and other troublesome insects. Toads are of essential service, especially in a garden, to eat up cabbage worms, caterpillars, etc.

So near and yet so what?

The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

Without Software, Hardware is useless.

It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.

Someday is not a day of the week.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Two logs short of a cord.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Now, weary traveler, Rest your head, For, just like me, You'll soon be dead.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.

You can't prevent birds of sorrow flying over your head, but you can stop them building nests in your hair.

What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, but because you think I should be. I look back on the way I was. A young, stupid kid that committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.

There are lots of other folks you can be sorry for stead of yourself.

The soul is covered with the color of it's leisure thoughts.

The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.

Neither sound nor thoughts can travel through a vacuum.

One great source of failure is found in a lack of concentration of purpose. There will be adverse winds in every voyage, but the able seaman firmly resists their influence, while he takes advantage of every favorable breeze to speed him on his course. So in our aims and pursuits we shall find much to counteract them, much to draw our attention from them, and, unless we are armed with a steadfast purpose, that can subordinate the lesser to the greater, that can repel hindrances, resist attractions, and bend circumstances to our will, our efforts will not be crowned with success.

Don't plant seeds: it is time to harvest.

Sign in the 'Gospel Store Window': Anything your heart desires. We only sell seeds. You have to plant the seeds. You nurture the plants. You harvest the fruit.

Thrust in your sickle with all your heart, might and strength.

First the farmer sows the seed, Then he stands and takes his ease, Stamps his foot and claps his hands And turns him round to view the land.

When you speak badly about others, you are telling who you are yourself.

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Never rise to speak until you have something to say, and when you have said it, cease.

You neednt feel embarrassed about having nothing to say unless you go ahead and say it.

A good speaker is one who quits when there is nothing more to be said.

Dont talk all day to make a few remarks.

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

A man appeared before an audience in which his wife was seated and when he got through he went up to her and said. 'How did I do? ' And she said, 'You did fine, only you missed several excellent opportunities to sit down.'

Speech is hard, but who can keep quiet?

Lecturers and preachers often wonder why they are disturbed in the middle of their discourse by their hearers rising up and going out. Over a century ago in the 1850's, this question was investigated by a national Council of Lecturers. Some thought the habit was due to natural infirmity; but that could not be, as it was frequently observed in able-bodied men and women. It was suggested that it might be owing to the lecture being stupid, but this idea was proved false by the council president, who remarked he had seen people go out at a lecture of his own. The conclusion was that the habit was owing to a congenital disproportion, the mind of the goer-out being able to contain only half a lectureso he went when his mind was full.

It's not just a good idea, it's the law. 186,000 miles per second.

Spellers of the world, untie!

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

The spiralcorresponding to the Hebrew vaudenotes cosmic forms in motion, or the relationship between unity and multiplicity. The spiral is a symbol of wisdom and eternity. The creative spiral rises in a clockwise direction. By virtue of its significance in connection with creation, with movement and progressive development, the spiral is an attribute of power, found in the scepter of the Egyptian pharaoh.

How close is Heaven? It's not very far. When you are close to God, It's right where you are.

We crave the sensation but ignore the cause.

Be prepared spiritually for things that will interrupt your spirituality ... at home, at church meetings ... in any situation.

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.

March 20th. Marks the 1st day of true spring. The Goddess blankets the Earth with fertility, bursting forth from Her sleep, as the God stretches and grows to maturity. He walks the greening fields and delights in the abundance of Nature. This is a time of beginnings, of action, of planting spells for future gains, and of tending ritual gardens.

Spring is nature taking up its option on the world.

When spring is dancing among the hills, one should not stay in a little dark corner.

Stand still and silently watch the world go by and it will.

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the Federal Government serve to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front....The power of the Federal Government would be augmented immeasurably if it were able to impress into its service and at no cost to itself the police officers of the 50 states.

It is incontestable that the Constitution established a system of 'dual sovereignty.'... Although the States surrendered many of their powers to the new Federal Government, they retained a residuary and inviolable sovereignty.... The Framers explicitly chose a Constitution that confers upon Congress the power to regulate individuals, not States. The great innovation of this design was that our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other.

The Constitution protects us from our own best intentions: It divides power among sovereigns and among branches of government precisely so that we may resist the temptation to concentrate power in one location as an expedient solution to the crisis of the day.

The Government contends ... that the earliest Congresses enacted statutes that required the participation of state officials in the implementation of federal laws ... we do not think the early statues imposing obligations on state courts imply a power of Congress to impress the state executive into its service. Indeed, it can be argued that the numerousness of these statutes, contrasted with the utter lack of statutes imposing obligations on the States executive (notwithstanding the attractiveness of that course to Congress), suggests an assumed absence of such power.... To complete the historical record, we must note that there is not only an absence of executive commandeering statutes in the early Congress, but there is an absence of them in our later history as well, at least until very recent years.

We held in New York [v. United States] that Congress cannot compel the States to enact or enforce a federal regulatory program. Today we hold that Congress cannot circumvent that prohibition by conscripting the States officers directly. The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. It matters not whether policy making is involved, and no case by case weighing of the burdens or benefits is necessary; such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

Torture the data long enough and they will confess to anything.

I'd love to go out with you, but I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture.

The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THEN WE WASTED 50 BILLION BUCKS.

'Doc, what I need is something to stir me up something to put me in fighting trim. Did you put anything like that in this prescription?' 'No, youll find that in the bill.'

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

I don't pray anymore. I used to, I used to pray for answers. A clue, a sign of what I should do. How to find something precious in this life. There was a time when I thought it was my work, my job, but is it? Nothing in this world changes because of what I do. The hurt goes on and on. God has given up on us. He doesn't hear us anymore.

Strait: archaic word meaning strict or rigorous.

People ignore the strange and unusual ... I myself am strange and unusual

Never talk to strange men.

To many of todays parents, youth is stranger than fiction.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but this is because fiction is obliged to stick to probability; truth is not.

Strategy is when you run out of ammunition but keep firing anyway.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within.

We must be stronger than the things which are against us.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.

Isn't it strange, that princes and kings And clowns that caper in sawdust rings, And common people like you and me Are builders for eternity? And each is given a bag of tools, A shapeless mass, and a book of rules; And each must make 'ere life is flown A stumbling block, or a stepping stone.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

I dreamt of heaven the other night, and the pearly gates swung wide. An angel with halo bright, ushered me inside. And there to my astonishment, stood folks I'd judged & labeled as quite 'unfit,' of 'little worth,' and 'spiritually disabled.' Indignant words rose to my lips, but NEVER were set free, for EVERY face showed stunned surprise, not ONE expected Me!

Stupid is a boundless concept.

At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.

The subconscious mind is a mental fireless cooker where ideas simmer & develop.

If it succeeds, it is right; if it fails, it is wrong.

A successful person is one who went ahead and did the thing the rest of us never quite got around to.

If at first you do succeed try not to look too surprised.

Success does not come to those who wait ... and it does not wait for anyone to come to it.

Success is more dependent on the backbone than the wishbone.

Success: willing to do what the average person is not willing to do.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

To enter heaven, a man must take it with him.

Lots of ground has been plowed by balky horses.

Moving water turns the mill wheel.

Success is achieved by those who try. Do it now.

A $3,000.00 electronic machine cannot equal the human brain in creativity or insight. Is your brain paying a good return on the creators investment in you?

A man is not poor because he has nothing but because he does nothing.

Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.

Success is still the constant application of the Golden Rule.

Success in our calling is the result of a persons love of and belief in the work he has undertaken. Earnest and conscientious labor often accomplishes more in the end than brilliant genius.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Ten Success Qualities Most Wanted by Business Leaders: 1. Ability to lead and communicate with others. 2. Ability to compete. 3. Ability to plan and schedule your activities. 4. Versatility in your dealings. 5. Loyalty to your business. 6. Responsibility for time, money, property and opportunities. 7. Honesty in all things. 8. Truthfulness. 9. High moral character. 10. Adaptability to mental and physical pressures with the ability to bounce back.

SUCCESS IS Not ACCESS TO EXCESS.

What am I willing to sacrifice for what I want to become?

You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead.

No one can change another persons beliefs. But you can be accepting of his beliefs and then slowly build an influence for the other person to change himself.

Succor: 1. To relieve the difficulty or distress of, 2. Help given in time of need.

Sigh: An amplifier for people who suffer in silence.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Sully's Bucket I've a thing or two to tell ya pard that I think you ought to know, About a rusty bucket Sully carries down below. You're not the first one, stranger, who laughed at Sully's pail. You're the only one who's laughing now, the rest have heard

Let us live then and be glad While young lifes before us After youthful pastime had, After old age hard and sad, Earth will slumber oer us.

Bright summer days are now over, Green leaves will all soon be gone, Fresh landscapes are turning golden Like solid rays of the sun. Lingering trees in the distance Filling my heart to the most, My life will turn in the meantime Into unsubstantial ghost.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

The supreme law of all is the weal* of the people. *wealth or well-being

The supreme test of a person is his ability to make things go right.

I dreamed death came the other night And Heaven's gate swung wide. A glorious angel soon appeared And ushered me inside. And there to my astonishment Were folks Id known on earth. Some I'd judged and found unfit And some of little worth. Indignant words rose to my lips But never were set free For every face showed stunned surprise Not one expected me.

Surviving [life] is the whole point. Quitting it will not make you strong. Surviving it will!

Swiftly the years, beyond recall, Solemn the stillness of this fair morning, I will clothe myself in springclothing, And visit the slopes of the Eastern Hill, By the mountainstream a mist hovers, Hovers a moment, then scatters, There comes a wind blowing from the south That brushes the fields of new corn.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the rare talent for not admitting you were right in the first place.

Never take anyone for granted and never let anyone take you for granted.

The Lord holds the periscope. We have to take his word.

Take time to work it is the price of success. Take time to think it is the source of power. Take time to play it is the secret of perpetual youth. Take time to read it is the foundation of wisdom. Take time to be friendly it is the road to happiness. Take time to dream it is hitching your wagon to a star. Take time to look around it is too short a day to be selfish. Take time to laugh it is the music of the soul. Take time with God it is the source of strength Source Unknown.

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Taking a moment to take it easy is being a friend to yourself.

A young music student went to a great composer and said, 'sir, I want to know how to write a symphony.' 'what,'said the musician, 'at your age?' 'I am 19,' replied the student, 'and you wrote a symphony at that age.' 'true, true,' mused the composer, 'but I didnt have to ask how to do it!'

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

When the river is deepest, it makes least noise.

Be careful what you say. Every time you open your mouth you let people look at your mind.

Samson killed a thousand men with the jaw bone of an ass. That many sales are killed every day with the same weapon.

Two rules of success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know.

That man proved his worth who can make us listen when he is by, and think when he has gone.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.

Teach me Thy patience; still with Thee In closer, dearer company, In work that keeps faith sweet and strong, In trust that triumphs over wrong.

The teacher who transmits his meaning to the understanding of the other person, and impels that individual to action, he is the successful teacher.

She taught English in high school when a great deal of emphasis was placed upon the mechanics of the grammar of the language. We remember her best, however, for her keen wisdom in facing life with its problems. She used to say: 'A money-lender serves you in the present tense; lends to you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the subjunctive; and ruins you in the future.'

No teaching is done well unless the pupil understands. Simple language is required for comprehension. Cloudy or vague expressions, ideas couched in unfamiliar terms, unclear thinking, are but obstacles in the way of learning.

Teach people so that they can better walk alone.

A group becomes a team when all members are sure enough of themselves and their contributions to praise the skill of others.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Young people view an average of 16 to 17 hours of television weekly, beginning as early as age 2. When video games and video cassette movies are added, some teens may be spending as many as 35 to 55 per week. More families own a television than a telephone.

Have you ever noticed, detective, that there are people in this world who can tell stories, but they're not the ones that write them?

Temper is a valuable possession dont lose it.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

I wouldn't be too surprised if the man gave into temptation, grabbed her cash, did her in, and put her remains through the sausage grinder in the meat department

Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.

Don't worry about temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.

The Ten Commandments of How to Get Along With People 1. Keep skid chains on your tongue; always say less than you think. Cultivate a low, persuasive voice. How you say it often counts more than what you say. 2. Make promises sparingly and keep them faithf

The Ten Commandments of Sport 1. Thou shalt not quit. 2. Thou shalt not alibi. 3. Thou shalt not gloat over winning. 4. Thou shalt not be a rotten loser. 5. Thou shalt not take unfair advantage. 6. Thou shalt not ask odds thou art unwilling to give. 7. Thou shalt always be ready to give thine opponent the shade. 8. Thou shalt not under estimate an opponent, nor over estimate thyself. 9. Remember the game is the thing, and he who thinketh otherwise is no true sportsman. 10. Honor the game thou playest, for he who playeth the game straight and hard, wins even when he loses.

I am blessed if I have a tender conscience. I can discern what is evil and avoid it. If I do not let my conscience become hardened., I can shun evil as quickly as the eyelid closes itself against a speck of dust.

The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

Expressing thanks through acts of appreciation are the most divine, and the greatest of these is service to God and man sincerely given, with an eye single to his divine purpose.

If one should give a neighbor a dish of sand and tell him there were particles of iron in it, he might feel for them with his finger in vain. But let the neighbor take a magnet and sweep through the sand, and the iron would be attracted to that magnet particles, invisible to the eye a moment before, would be gathered by the magnet. The unthankful heart, like a finger in the sand, discovers no mercies. But let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so finds it every moment some blessingsonly the iron in God's sand is more precious than anything on the earth.

That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

It is the color of light, the shape of sound, high in the evergreens. It lies suspended in hills, a blue line in a red sky. I am looking at sound.

Before I heard the doctors tell The dangers of a kiss; I had considered kissing you The nearest thing to bliss. But now I know biology and sit and sigh and moan; Six million mad bacteria and I thought we were alone!

The dark is everywhere; and though the sun comes up, And though the fires blossom and are tamed, The darkness is there, The darkness is waiting.

The red flame flickers on the wall of the cave (smeared with ochre, berry dye, charcoal) Making the great elk move, Making the mastodon breath, Making the hunters race and kill.

Watch them seeking to placate and understand the world above This they know. This they understand. There is darkness, everywhere, outside.

The Essence of a New Day This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind ... let it be something good.

Do not be deceived by this technological terror you have created. The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared with the power of the Force.

The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.

No individual snowflake ever felt any responsibility for an avalanche.

If we ever knew exactly where the light was coming from, getting there would be easy

While you don't greatly need the outside world, it's still very reassuring to know that it's still there.

A man was out walking in the desert when a voice said to him, 'Pick up some pebbles and put them in your pocket, and tomorrow you will be both happy and sad.' The man obeyed. He stooped down and picked up a handful of pebbles and put them in his pocket. The next morning he reached into his pocket and found diamonds and rubies and emeralds. And he was both happy and sad. Happy he had taken some sad that he hadn't taken more. And so it is with knowledge.

Not 'til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly Will God unfold the pattern, And explain the reason why. The dark threads were as needful In the skillful weaver's hand, As the threads of Gold and Silver In the pattern that He planned.

Young people view an estimated 10,000 violent acts each year. A recent National Television Violence Study examined nearly 10,000 hours of television programming over a three-year period and found that 51 percent contained violence, with childrens program

Your biggest challenge isn't someone else. It's the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells 'CANT,' but you don't listen. You just push harder. And then you hear the voice whisper 'can.' And you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are.

If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.

We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.

Use the talents you possess for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

The test of a man is the fight that he makes, the grit that he daily shows; the way that he stands on his feet and takes fates numerous bumps and blows. A coward can smile when theres naught to fear and nothing his progress bars, but it takes a man to stand up and cheer when the other fellow stars. It isnt the victory after all, but the fight that a brother makes. The man who, driven against the wall, still stands erect and takes the blows of fate with his head held high, bleeding and bruised and pale. Hes the man wholl win in the by and by, for he isnt afraid to fail. Its the bumps you get and the shocks, you get and the jolts that your courage stands; the hours of sorrow and vain regrets, the prize that escapes your hand that tests your metal and proves your worth. It isnt the blows that you deal, its the blows you take on this good old earth that show if your stuff is real.

As Easter time approaches, let me share with you the tender story of an eleven-year-old boy named Philip, a Down's syndrome child who was in a Sunday School class with eight other children. Easter Sunday the teacher brought an empty plastic egg for each child. They were instructed to go out of the church building onto the grounds and put into the egg something that would remind them of the meaning of Easter. All returned joyfully. As each egg was opened there were exclamations of delight at a butterfly, a twig, a flower, a blade of grass. Then the last egg was opened. It was Philip's, and it was empty! Some of the children made fun of Philip. 'But, teacher,' he said, 'teacher, the tomb was empty.' A newspaper article announcing Philip's death a few months later noted that at the conclusion of the funeral eight children marched forward and put a large empty egg on the small casket. On it was a banner that said, 'The tomb was empty.'

The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.

The west wasn't won on salad.

They whoever they may be can do whatever they want.

As the things in the darkness That whisper before they feast, They are to be placated and persuaded, They are to be loved and sacrificed to, They are to be prayed to and distrusted.

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

Think about your Dream all the time, no matter what else your doing. Live your Dream in your imagination. Become obsessed by it. Love it. Be passionate about it.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Are we thinking here, or is this just so much pointing and clicking?

If people said what they thought, most conversations would be very brief.

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

The person who thinks too little usually talks too much.

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

What orbit of the planets has put you and me in this place, at this moment? Where time takes a breath, and we dance on the edge of our dreams?

How lovely are the faces of Those who talk with God ... Lit with an inner sureness of The path their feet have trod; How gentle is the manner of Those who walk with Him!

All that you are is the result of what you have thought.

It is hard for the face to conceal the thoughts of the heart.

As an important project was begun, a bishop quoted an ancient sage as saying: If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible for us to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

'What are you doing?' a man asked of three laborers beside a building under construction. The first man replied, 'Stone-cuttin.' The second smiled. 'Puttin in timeuntil a better job comes along.' The third man waited a moment and then said simply, 'Im building a cathedral!'

The easiest way to find a use for something is to throw it out.

Walking, walking on the tight-rope of insanity Walking, walking on the verge of losing your mind.

The reason we have time is so everything doesn't happen at once.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.

The way to kill time profitably is to work it to death.

Time changes with time: in youth, time marches on; in middle age, time flies; and in old age, time runs out.

Time flies, but remember: you are the navigator.

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

Place all of your tasks into the following three categories. Do them in the sequence as numbered. 1. Must Do 2. Should Do 3. Would Like To Do

Helpful Hints & Useful Ideas for Time Management: Throw out low-priority tasks that have sat around for longer than two weeks. Reason: Piled up work is depressing and chances are time will be just as short in the future as it is now. Better: Clear desk completely on a periodic basis. High Priority tasks. Use best time of day for tasks categorized as hot, ripe, or urgent. Hot projects require immediate action because of enthusiasm or timeliness. Ripe items have been boiling for a while and are now critical.

A great lesson, which people should learn, is to do their work at the beginning of the day when they have the time before them, instead of at the end of the day when most of the time is gone beyond recall. If we wait, our opportunities may be gone; the present is the hour for improving privileges which, once gone, will return no more.

When a resolute fellow steps up to that great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find that the beard comes off in his hand, that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers.

You can carry a pack If it's strapped to your back; You can carry a weight in your hands. You can carry a bundle On top of your head, As they do in other lands. A load is light If you carry it right. Though it weighs as much as a boulder; But a tiny chip Is too heavy to bear If you carry it on your shoulders.

Tithing is not paid with money. It is paid with faith.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of is the only end in life.

This is my rule of married life: it's better to be happy than to be right.

Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldnt jump with them. Id be at the bottom to catch them.

Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way.

To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.

In order to finish first, you must first finish.

It is far better to get nowhere fast than to get nowhere slowly.

To get to Heaven turn right, keep straight.

If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

To love something is to give it room enough to grow.

Asked why they like rock music, one high school student said, I like rock music because you don't have to pay attention in order to get it.

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.

Can you trust a government that subsidizes tobacco and tries to ban vitamins to make intelligent choices about your health care? .

Plan for today as well as for tomorrow.

When you go home, Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.

Togetherness Do not stand at my grave and weep. I'm not there, I do not sleep. I'm a thousand winds that blow. I'm the diamond glint on snow. I'm sunlight on ripened grain. I'm the gentle rain. When you awaken in the morning hush, I'm the swift uplifting rush. Of quiet birds in circled flight. I'm the soft stars that shine in the night. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I'm not there. I did not die.

The sixth sheik's sheep's sick.

The man who is too big to study his job, is as big as he ever will be.

Can a woman be too virtuous? Can a bank cashier be too honest? Can a witness be too truthful ? Surely not. The trouble is that none of us is half as good as we ought to be.

Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.

Regarding trade relations, most people would like to.

Traffic increases to fill the road space available.

A small town newspaper reported that a newcomer, who had moved there to escape the traffic and congestion of the city, was run over by the Welcome Wagon.

I realized that far beyond the possibilities of bodily thought there were in myself forces, powers and knowledge far transcending all that the body can ever perceive or imagine in its loftiest flights.

Who never mourned hath never known What treasures grief reveals, The sympathies that humanize, The tenderness that heals. The power to look within the veil, And learn the heavenly lore, The keyword to life's mysteries So dark to us before.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Trees enrich our lives throughout the year. They reassure us with the rustle of their leaves, give us shade to soothe our overheated bodies and they bring delight to us when we watch birds nest in their boughs. However, it is only during the fall that they wave flamboyant foliage that seems to demand our attention.

Trees serve as homes for visiting devas who do not manifest in earthly bodies, but live in the fibers of the trunks and larger branches of the trees, feed from the leaves and communicate through the tree itself. Some are permanently stationed as guardians of sacred places.

Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.

Each billow that comes rolling on to toss us on its crest, Is natures way to teach us how to do our level best. If we learn each trials lesson, tis an aid our lives to guide, If we pass it by unheeded, were just drifting with the tide. So when trials and tribulations come to fill your mind with doubt, Theyre to teach some needed lesson you could never learn without.

[It] was the kind of town where they spell trouble T-R-U-B-I-L, and if you try to correct them, they kill you

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three all they have now, all they ever had, and all they except to have.

When you say that youve troubles As great as my own, Im forced to admit that its true; But consider the fact that Mine happens to me! While yours merely happen to you!

Referee's report: This paper contains much that is new and much that is true. Unfortunately, that which is true is not new and that which is new is not true.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself.

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

The true gentleman is God's servant. The world's master and his own man. Virtue is his business, study his recreation. Contentment his rest and happiness his reward. God is his father, Jesus Christ his Savior, the Saints his brethren, and all that need him his friends. Devotion is his chaplain, chastity his chamberlain, sobriety his butler, temperance his work, hospitality his housekeeper, providence his steward, purity his mistress of the house, and discretion his porter, to be let in and out as most fit; thus is his whole family made up of virtue and he is the master of the house.

Trust can be a powerful weapon.

On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.

Truth fears no questions.

Truth is a moral compass which points north under all conditions.

Truth is owned by everyone.

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

Tell the boss what you really think of him ... and the truth shall set you free.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

The explanation of triumph is all in the first syllable.

Trying is the first step towards failure.

At the turn of the century, the president of the London Chamber of Commerce gave these twelve maxims which he had tested through years of business experience. 1. Have a definite aim. 2. Go straight for it. 3. Master all details. 4. Always know more than you are expected to know. 5. Remember that difficulties are only made to be overcome. 6. Treat failures as steppingstones to further effort. 7. Never put your hand out further than you can draw it back. 8. At times be bold; always, be prudent. 9. The minority often beats the majority in the end. 10. Make good use of other men's brains. 11. Listen well; answer cautiously; decide promptly. 12. Preserve, by all means in your power, 'a sound mind in a sound body.'

There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

When citizens fear government, we call it tyranny When government fears citizens, we call it freedom

The natives of the South Seas have a fabulous reputation of good seamanship. Nevertheless, there is an old Tongan proverb, 'Koe make mangalongalo oku fakafoa vaka.' (It is always the hidden reef that sinks a canoe.) So one finds it in mortalitythe unforeseen obstacles are most apt to keep a traveler from receiving exaltation.

You are totally unique, just like everyone else.

In a world of envy and struggle and animosity, the united nations will continue to be confronted with difficult problems. But as it faces and meets each challenge it gains strength. If it surmounts the challenges it faces today, it will be stronger tomorrow, and the more able to tackle and perhaps solve what appear now to be insurmountable problems.

I am united with my friend in heart, What matters if our place is wide apart?

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

Explaining the unknown by means of the unobservable is always a perilous business.

Watch the unseen, listen to the unheard.

Sign in a retail florist shop. We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

Usability is like oxygen you never notice it until it is missing.

Unix *is* user friendly. It's just picky about its friends.

Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.

Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity.

Three things have value and worth supreme; A body that is strong, sound and clean; A brain that is clear and holds truth secure; And a heart that is pure, as gold is pure!

You dont have to be a big shot to be important the hairspring is just as valuable to a watch as the mainspring.

A sense of values is the most important single element in human personality.

You ruined my life. I lost my wife, my kid, my work. I lost everything all because of a little bad luck. You gotta pay for that man, you gotta pay. Otherwise there's no justice in this world, otherwise it's all meaningless. You can't just do something, and then pretend you didn't, that it didn't happen, that somehow you weren't involved. You were, you did. It's your fault. And now you gotta die for it.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

Victory is a political fiction.

The ability to accept victory graciously and take defeat without bitterness is what makes heroes.

'A man sees just what he is looking for,' said an old friend, 'and he sees only that degree of beauty.' A man is like a camera. One man may see something with all the vivid depth and color, while another may view the same object as only shadowy blacks-and-whites. Both men have the same kind of eyes; but it is what is behind those eyes, even as one camera lens has colored film behind it, that really counts.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Virtues paraded hide vices; like those strong odors used to hide bad smells.

Virtue is not always rewarded nor evil punished.

Let me tell you something. We're all guilty of something. Cruelty or greed or going sixty-five in a fifty-five mile per hour zone. But you know what? You want to think of yourself as the fair haired choir boy, you go ahead.... I'm saying you've got a darkness inside of you. You've got to know the darker, uglier sides of yourself. You've got to recognize them so they're not constantly sneaking up on you. You've got to love them because they're a part of you, because along with your virtues, they make you who you are. Virtue isn't virtue unless it slams up against vice so, consequently, your virtue is not real virtue until it's been tested ... and tempted.

The true ornament of any person is virtue, not clothes or jewels.

I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

I am only visiting this planet.

Visualize the type of person you want to be. Then act as if you already ARE that person.

No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.

Vulnerabilities, my dear priest, are exploitable weaknesses

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

All things come to those who wait, But when they come they're out of date.

Wake up the time is Now!

Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

Wasting time is an important part of life.

Wasting time is an important part of living.

I am remembering water that glows in the dawn, the motion tumbled in earth, life hidden in mounds.

We all are where we are because we want to be there.

Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without equivalent, is robbery.

Wealth is not what we have, but what we are.

You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile.

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

May the Lord be as welcome in your world, as you are in His.

I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women, and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals. That what can be imagined, can be achieved. That you must dare to dream, but that there is no substitute for perseverance and hard work, and team work, because no one gets there alone. And that while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

A farmer purchased an old, rundown, abandoned farm with plans to turn it into a thriving enterprise. The fields were grown over with weeds, the farmhouse was falling apart, and the fences were broken down. During his first day of work, the town preacher stops by to bless the man's work, saying, 'May you and God work together to make this the farm of your dreams!' A few months later, the preacher stops by again to call on the farmer. Lo and behold, it's a completely different place. The farm house is completely rebuilt and in excellent condition, there is plenty of cattle and other livestock happily munching on feed in wellfenced pens, and the fields are filled with crops planted in neat rows. 'Amazing!' the preacher says. 'Look what God and you have accomplished together!' 'Yes, reverend,' says the farmer, 'but remember what the farm was like when God was working it alone!'

I have learned to hit the ball where it lies.

You never know what makes some people tick until they begin to unwind.

Don't worry too much about what people think, because they seldom do.

We always act, feel, and perform according to what we imagine and believe to be true, about ourselves and our surroundings.

You cannot get enough of what you dont need, because what you dont need wont satisfy you.

You are what you think, not what you think you are.

People who can agree on what's funny can usually agree on other things.

God does nothing vain. When He gives a power, it is for a purpose, it is that it may reach an end. Now what I argue is this: Since He has put in my soul a germ that can grow to eternity, He means that it shall grow to eternity. Author Unknown

We often hear the playful question: 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?' A gardener's version might be: 'Which came first: the tree or the seed or the cutting?'

You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy [Avalokitesvara, or Kannon] has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.

If we could know Which of us, beloved, would be first to go, Who would be first to break the swelling tide, And step alone upon the other side If we could know! If it were you, Should I walk softly, keeping death in view? Should I my love to you more oft express? Or should I grieve you, beloved, any less If it were you! If it were I, Should I improve the moments slipping by! Should I more closely follow God's great plan, Be filled with sweeter charity to man If it were I! If we could know! We cannot, beloved, end 'tis better so. I should forget, just as I do today, And walk along the same old stumbling way lf I could know. I would not know Which of us, beloved, will be the first to go, I only wish the space may not be long Between the parting and the greeting song; But when, or where, or how we're called to go I would not know.

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

The worst whistlers whistle the most.

The person who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything.

Let the other fellow find out who you are. He'll remember it longer.

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success.

Dont criticize your wifes judgment look whom she married.

When a person is willing and eager, God joins in.

It makes no difference whether you win or lose until you lose.

When the wind is in the east, Tis neither good for man nor beast; When the wind is in the north, The skillful fisher goes not forth; When the wind is in the south, It blows the bait in the fishes mouth; When the wind is in the west, Then tis at the very best.

Without wind, grass does not move.

Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.

I am a feather for each wind that blows.

To be a winner, all you need to give is all you have.

Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If winning isn't important, why keep score?

Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

No winter lasts for ever; no spring skips its turn;

If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection.

Wisdom consists of letting the non-essentials pass by.

Wisdom: to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.

A wise leader remembers that people perceive service in their own terms.

Wise men have long ears, big eyes and short tongue.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

Never get in a battle of wits without ammunition.

Woman was created from the rib of man, She was not made from his head to top him; Nor of his feet, to be trampled upon; But pit of his side, to be equal to him; Under his arm, to be protected; And near his heart, to be loved.

To have the last word with a womanapologize.

Never trust something that bleeds for a week and does not die.

Her husband wishes she were his mother, so he could run away from home.

Men who treat women as helpless and charming playthings deserve women who treat men as delightful and generous bank accounts.

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

The power and magic of words are to be found here let us take time to ponder.

I did not hear the words you said, instead I heard the love.

Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

Words should be weighed not counted.

Boys flying kites, draw in their white winged birds, But you cant do that when youre flying words. Careful with fire is good advice we know, But careful with words is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed my sometimes fall back dead, But God Himself cant kill them once theyre said.

Keep your words sweetyou may have to eat them.

Words That Encourage Darkness and The Adversary: Angry, Antagonistic, Appetites, Arrogant, Confused, Contention, Covetous, Critical, Depressed, Domineering, Doubt, Easily Offended, Evasive, Fear, Frustrated, Harshness, Impatience, Ineffective, Irritable, Jealousy, Negative, Pessimistic, Possessive, Resentful, Secretive, Self-C entered, Selfish, Troubled, Uncontrolled, Unhappy, Vindictive,

Words That Encourage Light and The Spirit of The Lord: Believing, Calmness, Charity, Cheerful, Contrite, Contrition, Faith, Forgiving, Generous, Gentleness, Giving, Happy, Humility, Joy, Kindness, Longsuffering, Loving, Meekness, Nurturing, Oneness, Openness, Optimistic, Patience, Peaceful, Positive, Prayer, Sacrifice, Selfless, Sharing, Thankful, Trusting, Worship,

Someone of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Dont ask the Lord to guide your footsteps ... unless youre willing to move your feet.

Dont learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Mankind is divided into two classes: Those who earn their living by the sweat of their brow, and those who sell them handkerchiefs, cold drinks, and electric fans.

Plow deep while sluggards sleep.

The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.

What to do with your weight: pull it, don't throw it around.

You can tell some fellows aren't afraid of work by the way they fight it.

It isnt that what were told to do is too difficult it only seems so when compared to how easily we do nothing.

Its not what weve done that makes us feel tired so much as seeing so many things that need doing.

The surest way to doom a man to failure is to arrange for things to come to him too easily.

The ladder that leads to success cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets. La escaléra que lleva al éxito, no se sube con las manos en las bolsas.

The rewards for work are not limited to the paycheck; but extend to what we become as a result of our endeavors.

Learning: work from father, faith from mother.

If you found a man at the top of the mountain, he did not fall there.

The hardest work is being idle.

The person with nothing to do always gives it his personal attention.

A man can do no more than he thinks he can, but he usually does less then he thinks he does.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

When we work to buy enough food to go to work, at that moment and until our attitude is changed we are in trouble.

Young men, and old men too, should learn the truth that the only real, lasting pleasure in life comes from being actively busy at some work every day; doing something worth while, and doing it as well as you know how. The more we appreciate this fact, the more will we be able to make the most of our lives.

Why go to a museum and look at paintings if you can paint your own painting. I mean, do things for yourself. I mean, do you have somebody come in a sleep with your wife for you? Do you pay somebody to eat your food for you? I mean, do things for yourself. That's what life's about. There's so many people doing things they hate, I mean you have people running the country who all they care about is keeping their jobs not doing their jobs. There's so little real love in any of the work that I see.

When the world is falling apart around you, drink tea.

The world owes you nothing it was here first.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

A worm is the gardener's unpaid helper. Worms can eat up to one third of their bodyweight in a day. Some earthworms may live as long as eight years. Worms can live near the surface of the soil or even down to twelve feet below ground. Worms can move objects up to fifty times their own weight. The value of worms was understood by the ancients; it is said that Cleopatra of Egypt celebrated them as sacred in 50 B.C.

We're all worried, we're all in pain. That comes with having eyes, having ears

Some people give their worries swimming lessons in stead of drowning them.

Most of today's worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated.

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

If you must worry worry BIG!

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

There is never any need to worry. We have enough shovels to bury everybody.

Worry grows lushly in the soil of indecision.

Worry is today's mice nibbling on tomorrow's cheese.

A wayfarer carried a heavy sack about which he complained unceasingly. From none could he get help or comfort. And as he slowly journeyed, groaning under his burden, the Angel of Optimism came to him and spoke kindly, saying: 'Brother, what does thou carr

Worry takes as much time as work and pays less.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I suppose a fellow can worship on the golf course but its almost as unhandy as playing golf in church.

Your worth is not established by teaching or learning. Your worth is established by God. Nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth

I don't want to heal. I opened a wound, right here. It hurts like hell. I don't want it to get better and I don't want to pretend that everything's all right.

Don't wrestle with pigs; you get dirty and they enjoy it.

In this chapter, the present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present; the masculine gender includes the feminine, and the feminine, the masculine, and the singular includes the plural, and the plural the singular.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Our Father, which art in heaven, And has also written a book ...

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.

I am today what yesterday has made me Tomorrow I shall be changed by todays experiences.

Time is ready cash use it wisely.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.

The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen.

Sometimes you already have what you pray for.

Life itself can't give you joy Unless you really will it; Life just gives you time and space, It's up to you to fill it.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

You can make of life a precious jewel Or a dull unpolished stone; But whatever you are going to do, Its yours to do alone.

Use your own best judgment at all times. [This is their entire policy manual.]

Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable.

Youth and skill are no match for experience and treachery.

Zenmaster to Hotdog Vendor: 'Make me one with everything.'

Zucchinis terrific! Like bunnies, prolific!

Behind every great women ... is herself.

Can't is a word of defeat Can is a word of power

Life happens when you're on your way to someplace else.

Method saves hours of wasted effort.

People who live in the past rob the future.

The poor person is not one without a cent ... but one who is without a dream.

Two things are hard on the heart ... Running up a hill, running down people.

A person's character and their garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done during the growing season.

All the so-called 'secrets of success' will not work unless you do.

All things are connected, like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.

Although the wind is very powerful and you can feel its presence, in and of itself it cannot be seen. You know it is there by its effect on others. The great trees, the grasses and waves on the sea bend with its force. If you are aware of your surroundings, you know it is there long before you feel it. So it is with the ineffable.

Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace.

An estimated 63 million people are feeding birds in their yards. Research by Metz Farms Wildlife Feeding Specialists of Grand Rapids, Michigan, also shows that $2.3 billion is spent on birdseed each year.

An onion can make people cry, but there's no vegetable that can make them laugh.

And now a thought provoking question: When a cow laughs, does milk come out her nose?

Arbol que crece torsido jamas su tronco se enderesa. A tree that grows crooked will never straighten its trunk.

As is the inner, so is the outer; as is the great, so is the small; as it is above, so it is below; there is but One Life and Law: and he that worth it is One. Nothing is inner, nothing is outer; nothing is great, nothing is small; nothing is high, nothing is low, in the Divine Economy.

As the Garden Grows, so does the Gardener.

Aurora Musis amica. Dawn is friend of the muses.

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to Spring.

Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

Certain cereals and pulses (legumes) were domesticated in very ancient times. In about 8000 BC in the Fertile Crescent of the Near and Middle East (present-day Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Israel), wheats, barley, lentil, pea, bitter vetch, chick-pea, and possibly faba bean, were brought into cultivation by the Neolithic people. These crops spread from the point of origin. Archaeological evidence indicates that the wheats, and some of the legumes, had reached Greece by 6000 BC and evidence of their presence within that millennium has been found in the Danube Basin, the Nile valley, and the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan). Dispersal continued throughout Europe, the crops reaching Britain and Scandinavia in 4,000-2,000 BC.

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful, there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and morality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.

Come said the wind to the leaves one day, Come o're the meadows and we will play. Put on your dresses scarlet and gold, For summer is gone and the days grow cold.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Do not stand on my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn's rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in the circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die.

Do unto others as though you were the others.

Don't think you're on the right road just because its a well-beaten path.

Everyone lives downstream from someone else.

From a poster at a junior high It's not the I.Q. that counts, it's the I will.

Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.

Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.

Give a weed an inch and it will take a yard.

God made rainy days, so gardeners could get the housework done.

Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.

Hard work doesn't harm anyone, but I do not want to take any chances.

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

He who seeks rest finds boredom.... He who seeks work finds rest.

Here's to three, old apple-tree; Hence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow, And whence thou mayst apples bear enow! Hats full! Caps full! Bushel, bushel sacks full! And my pockets full, too! Huzza!

I plant the seed, You make it grow. You send the rain, I work the hoe.

I shall endeavor not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong.

If I had a flower for every time you made me smile, I'd be walking in an endless garden.

If it is to be, it is up to me!

If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game show host

In vino veritas. In the vine, the truth.

It is not enough for a gardener to love flowers; he must also hate weeds.

Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

Life ... is an onion. One peels it while crying.

Life is huge! Rejoice about the sun, moon, flowers, and sky. Rejoice about the food you have to eat. Rejoice about the body that houses your spirit. Rejoice about the fact that you can be a positive force in the world around you. Rejoice about the love that is around you. If you want to be happy, commit to making your life one of rejoicing.

Live each day as if it were your last, and garden as though you will live forever.

Man is a peculiar creature. He spends a fortune making his home insect-proof and air-conditioned, and then eats in the yard.

Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress.

Old gardeners never die, they are just pruned back hard and repotted.

Old gardeners never die, they just go to seed.

Only God can make a tree, but I'm in charge of seeds and weeds!

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

'Perennials sleep the first year, they creep the second year, and they leap the third year.'

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Some people like to make a little garden out of life!

Sometimes you have to step in it to learn how to avoid it.

Spring and Summer, Spent For Others, While Fall Days Lead To My Wintertime.

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

The best mirror is a friend's eye.

The contented person enjoys the scenery of a detour.

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

The pleasure of a garden are everyday renewed. A garden is the only complete delight the world affords, even complying with our various and mutable minds.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

The seed is hope; the flower is joy.

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

The way of cultivation is not easy. He who plants a garden plants happiness.

The woods are full of faeries! The trees are all alive; The river overflows with them, See how they dip and dive! What funny little fellows! What dainty little dears! They dance and leap, and prance and peep, And utter fairy cheers!

There is no rest for the gardener ... but there is dessert.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Weeds are the little vices that beset plant life, and are to be got rid of the best way we know how.

What do you suppose? A bee sat on my nose. Then what do you think? He gave me a wink And said, 'I beg your pardon, I thought you were the garden.

Whatever else seems pleasant at first apprehension, at length becomes dull by too long acquaintance. But the pleasures of a Garden are every day renewed. A Garden is the only complete delight the world affords, ever complying with our various and mutable Minds.

When confronted with two evils, a man will always choose the most attractive.

When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.

Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden.

Why are husbands like lawn mowers? They are difficult to get started, emit foul smells, and don't work half the time.

Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds, the harvest can be either flowers or weeds.

We should worry more about serving than being served. Debémos preocuparnos más para servir que para ser servidos.

Doctors encouraging words: '... And dont you worry about that heart. Itll keep beating as long as you live.'

When we walk to the end of all the light we have, and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen: that we will land on something solid, or we will learn how to fly.

I'm sure he's very big back in his own country. As Garth Brooks was giving a concert for 250,000 people in central park, 1997

Bank failure has a whole new meaning. Anonymous Observer, as riverbanks and levees gave way during flooding in North Dakota, 1997

Better to eat vegetables and fear no creditors, than eat duck and hide from them.

All those who become rich are deeply convinced that they can get rich.

As you begin to define your life in terms of goals, you automatically increase your level of excitement, aliveness, enthusiasm, self-confidence, and self-motivation.

When left unhealed, the past will destroy our lives. It buries our unique gifts, our creativity, and our talents.

In God We Trust

North to the Future

Liberty and Independence

Wisdom, Justice, Moderation

State Sovereignty, National Union

The Crossroads of America.

Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain.

Union, Justice, Confidence

Gold and Silver 'Oro y Plata.'

Equality Before the Law

All for our Country

Live Free or Die

Liberty and Prosperity

To be rather than to seem. Esse quam videri

With God, all things are possible.

Virtue, Liberty & Independence

The state motto is Al-ki or Alki, a Chinook Indian word meaning 'bye and bye' or 'hope for the future.'

While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in the All.

Every blade of grass has it's Angel that bends over it and whispers, 'grow, grow.'

Tis the gift to be simple.

An 800 ft. diameter asteroid passed within 500,000 miles of hitting the earth in 1989.

The best preacher is the heart, the best teacher is time, the best book is the world, the best friend is God.

Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

The medicine chest of the soul.

Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.

In 1947 a mothwas found in a relay of the Harvard Mark II machine, and taped into the logbook as the 'first actual case of bug being found.'

You can catch a cold by being chilled.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

A great way to open a conversation even business is to notice an item that relates somehow to the person you are speaking with.

Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.

As we increasingly recognize the need to recreate balance in the environment of our planet, we are called upon to create a commensurate balance in our inner environment.

Eschew obfuscation.

Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil man by goodness.

He has renounced all selfish attachments and observes no rites and ceremonies. He has only minimum possessions, and lives his life for the welfare of all. He has no staff nor tuft nor sacred thread. He faces heat and cold, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor with equal calm. He is not affected by calumny, pride, jealousy, status, joy, or sorrow, greed, anger, or infatuation, excitement, egoism or other goads; for he knows that he is neither body nor mind... The Lord is his true home ... for he has entered the unitive state. Having renounced every selfish desire, he has found his rest in the Lord of Love.... He offers no ancestral oblations; he praises nobody, blames nobody, is never dependent on anyone. He has no need to repeat the mantram, no more need to practice meditation. The world of change and changeless Reality are one to him, for he sees all in God.

As the rain on a mountain peak runs off the slopes on all sides, so those who see only the seeming multiplicity of life run after things on every side. As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or woman, Nachiketa, verily become one with the Godhead.

As the rivers flowing east and west Merge in the sea and become one with it, Forgetting they were ever separate rivers, So do all creatures lose their separateness When they merge at last into pure Being.

The separate self dissolves in the sea of pure consciousness, infinite and immortal. Separateness arises from identifying the Self with the body, which is made up of the elements; when this physical identification dissolves, there can be no more separte self. This is what I want to tell you, beloved.

What the sages sought they have found at last. No more questions have they to ask of life. With self-will extinguished, they are at peace. Seeing the Lord of Love in all around, Serving the Lord of Love in all around, they are united with him forever.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Youve failed many times, although you may not remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didnt you? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat? Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot. R.H. Macy failed 7 times before his store in New York caught on. English novelist John Creasy got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs. Dont worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you dont even try.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.

In the secret cave of the heart, two are seated by life's fountain. The separate ego drinks of the sweet and bitter stuff, Liking the sweet, disliking the bitter, While the supreme Self drinks sweet and bitter Neither liking this nor disliking that. The ego gropes in darkness, while the Self lives in light.

In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you.

If you have something positive you do where you become so focused that you lose yourself in the doing of it, then this is where your heart is. Be thankful for the gift. Work with the gift and it will work for you ... reaping you many rewards.

We shall respect that of God in all creation. We shall live in loving harmony with the earth. Humankind shall be a joyful gardener of the world given us by God, and shall use its fruits wisely and moderately.

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

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Brahman cannot be realized by those who are enmeshed in life's duality. But to all those who pierce this duality, whose hearts are given to the Lord of Love, He gives himself through his infinite grace.

Sages are granted all the help they need in everything they do to serve the Lord.

The Self cannot be known through study of the scriptures, nor through the intellect, nor through hearing learned discourses. The Self can be attained only by those whom the Self chooses.

The Self reveals himself to the one who longs for the Self. Those who long for the Self with all their heart are chosen by the Self as his own.

Those who reach greatness on earth reach it through concentration.

True happiness consists in making happy.

Harmlessness is the only religion.

Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope)

When you think everything is hopeless A little ray of light comes from somewhere!

We have not yet given up hope. The hope of two thousand years To be a free people in our own land The land of zion and Jerusalem

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something.

Hospitality is an expression of divine worship.

An Hasidic sage always carried two notes in his pocket. One read, 'For me alone was the universe created.' The other, 'Dust and ashes art thou.'

God can only help those who do not justify their behavior.

Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

I will give you the Word all the scriptures glorify, all spiritual disciplines express, to attain which aspirants lead a life of sense-restraint and self-naughting. It is Om. This symbol of the Godhead is the highest. Realizing it one finds complete fulfillment of all one's longings. It is of the greatest support to all seekers. Those in whose heart OM reverberates unceasingly are indeed blessed and deeply loved as one who is the Self.

O Lord, from whom we receive the mantram as a weapon to destroy our self-will, reveal yourself, protector of all.

The mantram is the bow, the aspirant is the arrow, and the Lord the target. Now draw the bowstring of meditation, and hitting the target be one with him.

When the whole mantram ... goes on reverberating in the mind, One is freed from fear, awake or asleep.... Established in this cosmic vibration, the sage goes beyond fear, decay, and death to enter into infinite peace.

Dont postpone joy.

People will always respond positively to joy and enthusiasm.

Keep it simple, stupid (KISS). U.S. Army manual from 1950s.

Brahman is beyond all duality, beyond the reach of thinker and thought.

Realizing that from which all words turn back and thoughts can never reach, one knows the bliss of Brahman and fears no more.

All the events in your life are a mirror image of your thoughts.

Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.

There once was a clumsy young lad Whose baseball playing was bad! He said, 'Oh, good grief-- The game was so brief-- I dropped every ball that I had!'

This funny old lady can cure Children's bad habits, for sure! With her magical tricks, Any vice she can fix, And those kids will become sweet and pure!

There once was a pale young lad Who wanted some freckles so bad, He fell for a trick, And ended up sick, And realized that he had 'been had'!

There once was a prim, proper Nanny, Whose magical feats were uncanny! She lived with the Banks' Who said to her, 'Thanks ... A spoonful of sugar's just dandy!'

There once was a red-headed gal; A monkey she had for a pal. Strong as an ox, With funny long sox; If you try to find her, you shall!

There once was a floppy scarecrow, Companion of Dorothy and Toto. 'I'm really not vain, But I must have a brain, So off to the wizard I'll go!'

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Covet nothing. All belongs to the Lord. Thus working you may live a hundred years. Thus alone will you work in real freedom.

People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. Turn up your driveway, not even sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door, as innocent as children, longing for the past. 'Of course we won't mind if you look around,' you'll say, 'it's only twenty dollars per person.' They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it, for it is money they have and peace they lack. They'll walk off to the bleachers, sit in their shirt sleeves on a perfect afternoon. [They'll] find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game. It'll be as if they've dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces.

God hides things by putting them near us.

If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed.

He is fire and the sun, and the moon and the stars. He is the air and the sea, and the Creator, Prajapati. He is this boy, he is that girl, he is this man, he is that woman, and he is this old man, too, tottering on his staff. His face is everywhere. He is the blue bird, he is the green bird with red eyes; he is the thundercloud, and he is the seasons and the seas. He has no beginning, he has no end. He is the source from which the worlds evolve. From his divine power comes forth all this magical show of name and form, of you and me, which casts the spell of pain and pleasure. Only when we pierce through this magic veil do we see the One who appears as many.

Meditate and realize this world is filled with the presence of God.

The Lord of Love is before and behind. He extends to the right and to the left. He extends above; he extends below. There is no one here but the Lord of Love. He alone is; in truth, he alone is.

The Lord of Love is one. There is indeed no other. He is the inner ruler in all beings. He projects the cosmos from himself, maintains and withdraws it back into himself at the end of time. His eyes, mouths, arms, and feet are everywhere. Projecting the cosmos out of himself, he holds it together. He is the source of all the powers of life. He is the lord of all, the great seer who dwells forever in the cosmic womb. May he purify our consciousness!

You are the supreme Brahman, infinite, yet hidden in the hearts of all creatures. You pervade everything.

It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.

He that prays much by night his face is fair by day.

He bringeth forth grass for the cattle; and green herb for the service of men; That he may bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man; and oil to make him a cheerful countenance, and bread to strengthen a man's heart.

Western wind, when wilt thou blow, The small rain down can rain? O if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!

10 Reasons to Read to Your Child 1. Because when you hold them and give them this attention, they know you love them. 2. Because reading to them will encourage them to become readers. 3. Because children's books today are so good that they are fun, even for adults. 4. Children's book illustrations often rank with the best, giving them a lifelong feeling for good art. 5. Books are one way of passing on your moral values to them. Readers know how to put themselves in other's shoes. 6. Because every teacher and librarian they ever encounter will thank you. 7. Because, until they learn how to read themselves, they will think you are magic. 8. Because it's nostalgic. 9. Because, for that short space of time, they will stay clean and . 10. Because, if you do, they may then let you read in peace.

Brahman is the first cause and last refuge. Brahman, the hidden Self in everyone, Does not shine forth. He is revealed only To those who keep their mind one-pointed On the Lord of Love and thus develop A superconscious manner of knowing. Meditation enables them to go Deeper and deeper into consciousness, From the world of words to the world of thoughts, Then beyond thoughts to wisdom in the Self.

Propagate the religion which is a blessing to all creatures in the world.

In deep meditation aspirants may see forms like snow or smoke. They may feel a strong wind blowing or a wave of heat. They may see within them more and more light: fireflies, lightning, sun, or moon. These are signs that one is far on the path to Brahman.

Above all senses is the mind. Above the mind is intellect. Above the intellect is ego. Above the ego is the unmanifested seed, the Primal Cause.

Gambling, eating meat, wine-bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery these seven things in this world lead to the hells.

A helpless sparrow can drift with the wind. It takes an eagle to fly against the storm.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou hear.

Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought, For these are the things Jesus taught.

Certainly we handle uncertainty.

The supreme Self is neither born nor dies. He cannot be burned, moved, pierced, cut, nor dried. Beyond all attributes, the supreme Self is the eternal witness, ever pure, indivisible, and uncompounded, far beyond the senses and the ego.... He is omnipresent, beyond all thought, without action in the external world, without action in the internal world. Detached from the outer and the inner, This supreme Self purifies the impure.

Though all the galaxies emerge from him, He is without form and unconditioned.

A person is what his deep desire is. It is our deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to come. So let us direct our deepest desires to realize the Self.

... all things we desire but do not have, are found when we enter that space within the heart; for there abide all desires that are true, though covered by what is false. (p. 192 ???)

The Self desires only what is real, thinks nothing but what is true. Here people do what they are told, becoming dependent on their country, or their piece of land, or the desires of another, so their desires are not fulfilled and their works come to nothing, both in this world and in the next. Those who depart from this world without knowing who they are or what they truly desire have no freedom here or hereafter. But those who leave here knowing who they are and what they truly desire have freedom everywhere, both in this world and in the next.

Those who dwell on and long for sense-pleasure are born in a world of separateness. But let them realize they are the Self and all separateness will fall away.

When all desires that surge in the heart are renounced, the mortal becomes immortal.

A French observer at Valley Forge: Such a ragged and at the same time merry set of fellows were never before brought together.

Everything matters!

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Wisdom is a life that knows it is living.

The highest form of wisdom is kindness.

Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a womans will? For if she will, she will, you may depend ont. And if she wont, she wont; so theres an end ont.

A word to the wise is often enough to start an argument.

Work expands to fill the time available.

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.

In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.

In the nut, nothing is lost, except perhaps the noise it makes when breaking.

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Wondrous is this great, blue ship that sails around the mighty sun and joy to everyone that rides along.

When you want what you've never had, you must do what you've never done.

Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.

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