~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~

~ QUOTES OF THE DAY ~.~ April 4, 2003

All were so good, it was difficult to decide which to post, so I'm posting all of them:)

I am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such
as you, and every life like yours, this earth would be a God's Paradise.

Phillips Brooks
(1835-1893, American Minister, Poet)


"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it
with a club."

- Jack London, Author

"Love is an attempt to change a
piece of dream into reality."
~ Theodor Reik

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
-- Hans Selye

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Helen Keller


Reality is what you allow your mind to see.
Author: Unknown

QUOTE OF THE DAY ~.~ April 5, 2003

"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of
pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and
receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed."

~ Erastus Wiman

~ Two men look out
through the same bars:
One sees the mud,
and one the stars. ~

Fredrick Langbridge

cavfancier-Lol, I'm gonne nick your pooh quote to wind up our own dear rabbit

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

QUOTE OF THE DAY ~.~ April 6, 2003

"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
~ Phillip Lopate

~ You're never too old to become younger. ~
~ Mae West ~

Misti,

That Mae West had some fun Lol

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

Hiama, she sure had a great sense of humor!

Quite an emancipated lady for those days, she'd fit in well today she was ahead of her time.

~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~.~ April 8, 2003

"If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world."

~ Chinese Proverb ~


~ The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. ~

~ Aldous Huxley ~

Misti-I like the chinese proverb, its pretty relevant today don't you think, here is a light hearted one from Groucho Marx

" Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here. "

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~.~ April 9, 2003

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy."

~ Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)



~ I've come to believe that all my past failure and
frustration were actually laying the foundation
for the understandings that have created the
new level of living I now enjoy. ~

~ Unknown source

"Oh, one world at a time!"

ATTRIBUTION: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862),
U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
Quoted in Henry D. Thoreau, F.B. Sanborn (1882).

Remark made shortly before his death to Parker Pillsbury,
when asked whether he believed in an afterlife. Brooks
Atkinson, in Walden and Other Writings of Thoreau, claimed
the remark was made to Thoreau's closest friend William Ellery
Channing.

Babs. so true ... I think one is all we could handle at one time:)

~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~.~ April 12, 2003

"The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It crams-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner."

~ Richard M. Devos ~ {1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.}


~ We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon. ~ Konrad Adenauer ~

Misti Misti your Spring Fever incarnate.

~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~.~ April 13, 2003

"Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life."

~ Leo Buscaglia ~


~ Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too. ~ Lawrence Bixby ~

~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~.~ April 14, 2003

"I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility."

~ Helen Keller ~


~ It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. ~ George Gissing ~

~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~.~ April 15, 2003

"Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be."

~ Karen Ravn ~


~ The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken. ~

~ Samuel Johnson ~

Two Iranians met in California. One started to greet the other in Farsi, the language of their native country. The other Iranian waved him away contemptuously and said, "We're in America now. Speak Spanish."


c.i.

I'm hooked on these quotes