~ QUOTE OF THE DAY ~

~ April 28, 2003 ~

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life, the evening beam that smiles the clouds away and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."

~Lord Byron

oh hiama........just love that PD

Misty

Whipo will, whipo will, whipo will.......

In the branches
at first sun light
the call of the whipo will
for you do i whistle
this Misty spring morning
your quotes
equally adorning
Whipo will, whipo will ,whipo will

~ April 30, 2003 ~


"The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person."

~ Norman Vincent Peale, Minister and Author

"The weaker the argument, the stronger the voice."

Author: Unknown


"And the day came
when the risk it took
to remain tight in the bud
was more painful than
the risk it took to blossom"

~ Anais Nin

~ May 1, 2003 ~


"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."

~ Unknown


"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."

~ Bernard Bailey

~ May 2, 2003 ~


"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before
you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you
criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit,
try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

~ William A. Ward {American Anthropologist}



~ The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ~

~ Lucretius (c. 99-c. 55 B.C.); Roman poet, philosopher

~ May 3, 2003 ~

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is
that we may turn around to find the future has run out on
us."

~ Michael Cibenko

"The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many
ways the highest adventure on earth."

~ Norman Cousins

"Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety
keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it
is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little."

~ Stephen Levine

"Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing
still."

~ Chinese Proverb

~ May 4, 2003 ~


"I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to
wake up every day and go through what you go through.
But the beautiful moments that you share with people that
you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the
pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished,
and I think that's what music is all about - to remind
people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's
life."

~ Charlie Haden, Grammy Winning Jazz Artist


"People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never
cross."

~ Unknown Source

QUOTE OF THE DAY
The moving finger writes: and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

~ May 5, 2003 ~


"Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them
and their value will never be known. Improve
them and they will become the brightest
gems in a useful life."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of
us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of
all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

~ Robert F. Kennedy

~ May 6, 2003 ~


"To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."

~ Grenville Kleiser

~ May 7, 2003 ~


"Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm
and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms."

~ Ding Ling ~


"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the great
values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are
the most stable things in our lives."

~ Jesse Herman Holmes


"If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender
completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those
moments."

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(1906-, American Author)

~ May 8, 2003 ~


"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present
moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If
one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else
to do, and nothing else to pursue."

~ Hagakure


"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other."

~ Luciano De Crescenzo

Fra Giovanni gave us these immortal words in 1513:

"No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven!
No peace lies in the future that is not hidden in his present moment. Take
peace! The gloom of this world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach,
is joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and
to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look. Life is so generous a
giver...."


"Forgiveness is "selective remembering"--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go."

~ Marianne Williamson

"When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found."

~ Author Unknown

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Remember that."

~ The Harry Potter Movie

~ May 9, 2003 ~


"Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up
with a smile and go after life & Live it, enjoy it, taste
it, smell it, feel it."

~ Joe Kapp


"Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is
never permanent and failure is never final."

~ Brian Tracy

"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is
mighty."

~ Lao-tzu


"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

~ Margaret Lee Runback


"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."

~ English proverb

Happy Mother's Day!

~ May 11, 2003 ~


"If I had a flower for each time I thought of My Mother,
I could walk in my garden forever."

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

~ Washington Irving


"There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps."

~ Archibald Thompson

~ May 12, 2003 ~


"Love has no other desire but to fulfull itself.
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

~ Kahlil Gibran ~


"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to
persevere in the road to a happier life."

~ Pythagoras ~

~ May 13, 2003 ~


"Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down."

~ Kobi Yamada


"Life's a dance, you learn as you go, sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow. Don't worry bout what you don't know, life's a dance....you learn as you go."

~ Katie Schrimsher

~ May 14, 2003 ~


"If you look to others for fulfillment,
you will never be fulfilled.

If your happiness depends on money,
you will never be happy with yourself.

Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the world belongs to you."

~ Lao Tzu


"Life flows like a river. We can skim the surface or plunge more deeply into our experience. It is solitude that encourages and permits the experience of depth."

~ Julie Cameron