Thoughts sent 2009

12/1/2008 Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. - Unknown
12/2/2008 High expectations are the key to everything. - Sam Walton
12/3/2008 Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. - Spanish proverb
12/4/2008 Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art … it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis
12/5/2008 I don't want to have to wake up, face God and say, "Well, duh, I should have tried." - Dolly Parton
12/8/2008 I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Arthur Rubinstein
12/9/2008 I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer
12/10/2008 I believe in bad luck. I believe I will always have it, and I plan accordingly. - Napoleon Bonaparte
12/11/2008 Holding a grudge is like letting someone live rent free in your head. - Unknown
12/12/2008 History is merely a list of surprises … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
12/15/2008 Here's the great challenge of life - You can have more than you've got because you can become more than you are. - Jim Rohn
12/16/2008 Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.  - David Storey
12/17/2008 God has has two dwellings, one in heaven and the other in a meek and thankful heart. - Izaak Walton
12/18/2008 Freedom is the right to be wrong; not the right to do wrong. - John G. Diffenbaker
12/19/2008 Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare. - Al Batt
12/22/2008 Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton
12/22/2008 The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely - William Osler
12/23/2008 If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. - Wu-Mem
1/2/2009 Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin
1/5/2009 In the end, that is what we all must do. Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try hard to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere. - Philip Gulley
1/6/2009 In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt
1/8/2009 It is a sign of strength, not weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers. - John P. Lougbrane
1/12/2009 Is it possible that I am so busy doing that I no longer have time to enjoy being? - Wilson
1/13/2009 It doesn't take much to lift one's spirits: simple pleasures abound everywhere. All we need to know to do is prepare the mind, look, then enjoy. - Brin Luke Seaward
1/14/2009 It is more important to have fun than to be funny. - Lawrence J. Peter
1/15/2009 It is not knowing, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
1/16/2009 It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important. - Thomas Huxley
1/19/2009 It takes a little bit of being crazy to make a difference in this world. - Erin Brockovich
1/21/2009 The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. - Arnold Palmer
1/22/2009 The ones whom you should try to get even with are the ones who have helped you. - Unknown
1/23/2009 The most important words we'll ever uter are those words we say to ourselves, about ourselves, when we're by ourselves. - Al Walker
1/26/2009 The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure. - Joseph Manning
1/27/2009 The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
1/28/2009 The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - William Cowper
1/29/2009 The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1/30/2009 The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable. - Margaret Storm Jameson
2/2/2009 The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. - C.S. Lewis
2/3/2009 The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.  - Arthur C. Clarke
2/4/2009 The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. - Charles Caleb Colton
2/5/2009 The scars you acquire by exercising courage will never make you feel inferior. - D.A. Battista
2/6/2009 The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. - James Baldwin
2/9/2009 I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it ceased to be one. - Mark Twain
2/10/2009 If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something. I can neither give nor receive. - Dorothee Soelle
2/11/2009 If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - Lucy Larcom
2/12/2009 If there is bitterness in your heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter. - Yiddish Proverb
2/13/2009 If there is a sin against life, it consists…in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. - Albert Camus
2/13/2009 Love is its own reward. - Helmut Thielicke
2/16/2009 Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomlishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. - Golo Mann
2/17/2009 Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. - Robert K. Greenleaf
2/18/2009 Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never tried. - Robyn Allan
2/19/2009 Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the street corner after the parade is a mile down the street. - Ben Nicholas
2/20/2009 Never believe in never. - Eve J. Bloom
2/23/2009 When you've exhausted all possibilities remember this: You haven't! - Robert H. Schuller
2/24/2009 What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. - Yiddish proverb
2/25/2009 What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. - Pericles
2/26/2009 We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. - Frank Tibolt
2/27/2009 We don't beat the reaper by living longer; we beat the reaper by living well and living fully. - Randy Pausch
3/2/2009 Even a small star shines in the darkness. - Finnish Proverb
3/3/2009 Every try will not succeed. If you live, your business is trying. - John O. Killens
3/4/2009 Feelings are everywhere - be gentle. - J. Masai
3/5/2009 Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. - Giuseppe Garibaldi
3/6/2009 Following the path of least resistance is what makes men and rivers crooked. Unknown
3/9/2009 When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir
3/10/2009 We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. - Frederick Buechner
3/11/2009 Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. - Montesque
3/12/2009 Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn
3/13/2009 Truth, like surgery, may hurt but it cures. - Han Suyin
3/15/2009 Don't wait for a crisis to discover what is important in your life. - Unknown
3/30/2009 When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. - White Elk
3/31/2009 What is progress, anyway? Simply put, it means forward movement, but each of us defines that differently …. What makes sense is to establish what represents progress for you - and only you. - Joanna M. Lunt with Barbara Alpert
4/1/2009 Best friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. - Unknown
4/2/2009 Better are loaves when the heart is joyous, than riches in unhappiness. - Amenemope
4/3/2009 Between saying and doing whatever it is a long road. - Spanish Proverb
4/6/2009 Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. - Samuel Butler
4/7/2009 Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad. - Christina Rossetti
4/8/2009 Cherish what you have and struggle for better. - Greek Proverb
4/9/2009 Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. - Neil Postman
4/10/2009 Do more than listen; understand. - John H. Rhoades
4/13/2009 Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing - it was here first. - Robert Jones Burdette
4/14/2009 Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. - Satchel Paige
4/16/2009 Envy is an insult to oneself. - Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
4/17/2009 Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein
4/20/2009 Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them keep trying. - Merry Browne
4/21/2009 Failure is not a fatal disease. - Earl G. Graves Jr.
4/22/2009 Foolish are the generals who ignore the daily intelligence from the trenches. - Unknown
4/23/2009 For no matter how triumphant we are, no matter how high we may climb, the course of a normal life will lead us to losses. Judith Virost
4/24/2009 Giving of ourselves is the way we change the world at the end of our fingertips. - Richard F. Schubert
4/27/2009 Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. - Michael Burke
4/28/2009 Great chiefs prove their worthiness. - Seneca Indian Proverb
4/29/2009 He who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness. - Unknown
4/30/2009 He who is aware of his folly is wise. - Jewish Proverb
5/1/2009 History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. - B.C. Forbes
5/4/2009 You have all the powers you dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations in your own mind as to what you cannot do. Don't think cannot. Think you can. - Darwin P. Kingsley
5/5/2009 Wise men understand that every day is a day of reckoning. - John Gardner
5/13/2009 No matter how you used yesterday, you received 24 hours today. - Unknown
5/14/2009 No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. - Louis Brandeis
5/15/2009 No one ever sized up humans more accurately than the fellow who invented the pencil eraser. - Unknown
5/18/2009 Nothing in the competitive world of business is easy, but accomplishment usually results from knowing what you want to achieve and not giving up when the inevitable obstacles get in the way. - James M. Zimmerman
5/19/2009 Nothing is more important to the future of an idea than the first step you take to try it out. - O.A. Battista
5/20/2009 Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan
5/21/2009 One must wager on the future.  To save the life of a single child, no effort is superfluous.  To make a tired old man smile is to perform an essential task.  To defeat injustice and misfortune, if only for an instant, for a single victim, is to invent a new reason to hope. - Elie Wiesel
5/22/2009 One of the major milestones in the gaining of wisdom is finally realizing that meaning is not something to be found in life, but is rather something we choose to give our lives. - Alan Stedall
5/26/2009 Only by taking the risk of going too far can you determine how far you can go. - Joe Heuer
5/27/2009 Only you can be yourself. No one else is qualified for the job. - Bits & Pieces
5/28/2009 Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today. - Stewart B. Johnson
5/29/2009 Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them. - James E. Sweaney