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Life

2010-11-20T09:20:00.002-06:00

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

- George Washington Carver

Tact

2010-02-09T19:34:00.000-06:00

“What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.”

~ Don Williams, Jr.

Problems

2009-12-09T20:05:00.001-06:00

I just saw this on my friend Shelly's FB page and INSTANTLY LOVED IT!

"Problems are not stop signs."

Simple. True. Brilliant.

Power within

2009-12-09T18:36:00.000-06:00

“The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.”

Lloyd Dobens

Motivation

2009-12-09T18:33:00.000-06:00

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

Fitness

2009-12-05T08:58:00.000-06:00

I've never regretted doing a workout but have often regretted skipping them.

It seems like oftentimes it is a matter of choice.

2009-11-04T19:59:00.000-06:00

“What running teaches is that we can get from where we are to where we want to be, but we have to get there a day at a time.”

John Bingham.

Decide

2009-10-19T18:45:00.000-05:00

"You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are."

~ Edgar A. Guest

cool frank lloyd wright quotes

2009-09-11T19:13:00.000-05:00

"The Thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a Thing makes it happen."

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

*Thanks Stacey for sharing!

That's what it's all about!

2009-08-04T18:58:00.000-05:00

"My wife and I have an agreement in our marriage, and part of that contract is that we are going to shine our lights on each other.”

Ashton Kutcher on his marriage to Demi Moore.

Focus

2009-07-28T19:18:00.000-05:00

Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

-Marianne Williamson

Sentimental

2009-06-17T17:27:00.000-05:00

"There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me."

- Gretchen Kemp

Discovery

2009-06-06T19:58:00.000-05:00

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.

What you'll discover is yourself."

—Alan Alda

It all happened for a reason.

2009-06-06T19:53:00.000-05:00

"What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, a spiritually, you will have to change what you think."

-Dr. Patrick Gentempo

Why I haven't read his books is beyond me.

2009-06-01T22:06:00.000-05:00

“That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.”

Malcolm Gladwell
(emphasis is allllllllllll mine).

This is a good reminder for me these days.

2009-05-27T21:49:00.001-05:00

Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow.

~Unknown

Watchful

2009-05-18T20:28:00.000-05:00

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

—Laozi (Lao-tzu)

Impressions

2009-05-12T23:00:00.000-05:00

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you."

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The pursuit of happiness

2009-05-11T21:10:00.000-05:00

"Some pursue happiness, others create it."

-Anonymous

Stuck in my head.

2009-05-11T20:53:00.000-05:00

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

Easier said than done.

2009-05-11T20:29:00.000-05:00

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

— Lady Dorothy Nevi

That Gilda was a wise woman.

2009-04-01T22:07:00.000-05:00

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what is going to happen next.”

-Gilda Radner

Realllllllllllllly?????

2009-03-30T20:34:00.000-05:00

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
-- William James

Strawberry Jam

2009-03-25T23:38:00.000-05:00

"When you overthink at the wrong moment, you cut yourself off from the wisdom of your emotions, which are much better at assessing actual preferences. You lose the ability to know what you really want. And then you choose the worst strawberry jam."

Johan Lehrer - author of How We Decide.

The race is long.

2009-03-23T19:58:00.001-05:00

"The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the others than it is to drive too hard and crash."

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

It's not the load...

2009-01-27T23:35:00.000-06:00

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

~Lena Horne

Proverb

2009-01-27T19:40:00.000-06:00

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

~Cherokee Proverb

Rumi

2009-01-26T19:39:00.000-06:00

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

~Rumi

We are what we think.

2009-01-25T20:56:00.000-06:00

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Why be normal?

2009-01-25T19:38:00.000-06:00

Being normal is not necessarily a virtue – it rather denotes a lack of courage.

~Stockard Channing as Aunt Francis in Practical Magic

Self-esteem

2009-01-25T17:40:00.000-06:00

I have learned that self-esteem is just that: SELF-esteem. Not wife-esteem or lover-esteem or even sponsor-esteem. It has to come from ME, not from others opinions of me.

~Al-Anon

Discoveries

2009-01-24T21:55:00.000-06:00

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

- William James

Solitude

2009-01-24T19:38:00.001-06:00

If you can’t stand solitude, maybe you bore others too.

~Bob Gordon

I love this...

2008-10-16T21:40:00.001-05:00

“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.”

Waste not.

2008-05-08T18:48:00.000-05:00

"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are."

-Unknown

So true.

2007-11-28T08:16:00.000-06:00

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts."

- George F. Tilton

The truth!

2007-10-26T10:56:00.001-05:00

- Edgar A. Guest

Amen.

2007-10-24T12:38:00.000-05:00

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

- Timothy Leary

Take care of number one.

2007-10-24T10:29:00.000-05:00

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."

-Julius Erving

Getting even.

2007-10-24T10:06:00.000-05:00

"The only people to get even with are those who have helped you."

-Anonymous

I must be super alive.

2007-10-22T10:31:00.000-05:00

"Problems are a sign of life."

Norman Vincent Peale

Questions

2007-10-11T13:23:00.000-05:00

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

- Jim Rohn

Trying hard not to be an idiot.

2007-10-10T13:02:00.001-05:00

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day-to-day living that wears you out.

-Anton Chekhov

What if, indeed.

2007-09-26T22:26:00.000-05:00

"What if you quit being defeated?"

Rob McCarron
(my brother)

Forgiveness, Take Two.

2007-09-26T22:24:00.000-05:00

"Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past."

-Landrum Bolling

Forgiveness

2007-09-26T22:23:00.000-05:00

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time."

- Sara Paddison

What do you expect?

2007-09-24T08:09:00.000-05:00

It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

-Somerset Maugham

Happiness.

2007-09-22T12:50:00.000-05:00

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances."

- J. Donald Walters

A message for trouble.

2007-09-22T10:48:00.000-05:00

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

-Ann Landers

Time Management

2007-09-13T08:32:00.000-05:00

"Avoiding the phrase 'I dont have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life."

Bo Bennett

Avoid competition

2007-09-13T08:29:00.001-05:00

There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

-Indira Gandhi

Talent

2007-06-18T22:59:00.000-05:00

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

The word "harmony" has such a nice ring to it.

2007-06-18T22:57:00.000-05:00

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. "

-Thomas Merton

Hammer? Check. Nails? Check. Dreams? CHECK! CHECK!

2007-06-18T22:56:00.000-05:00

"Build a dream and the dream will build you."

- Robert Schuller

Confucius says smart things...

2007-06-18T22:55:00.000-05:00

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

-Confucius

Book Reviews!

2007-05-30T22:01:00.000-05:00

I recently received an email request from a publisher that wanted to know if I would be interested in reviewing a couple of new books that they have recently released. After reading a little bit about the books I quickly agreed knowing that my daughter would really be VERY interested in the books. She agreed to read and review each of them. She read two books from The Fairy Chronicles collection by J.H. Sweet.

Before I share her reviews (posted below) let me tell you that my daughter is an incredible reader. She has started and finished very large novels in just a matter of days. She also knows quite clearly what she likes and doesn't like and all of her friends are fans of the same types of books that she enjoys.

When we received the books in the mail my daughter was reading the first one before I finished pulling the second one out of the package. She took the first book to school to read during breaks. When she came home she asked if she would be allowed to keep the books for awhile or if we had to return them. I told her that they were ours to keep and she asked if she could share them with her friends. I agreed. I know that two or three of her classmates also read and enjoyed the books. My daughter also put in a request to her school librarian to have these books purchased for the school. She enjoyed them that much.

My daughter's reviews for the two books are below. I plan to purchase the rest of the series for her.

Marigold and the feather of hope

I liked how the author put details in the story. About Marigold and her new friends Dragonfly, Thrisle and Firefly. It always shows you where you are in the book it kind of tells you that the fairies are not as mischievous a sthe brownies. I like how it ended with lots of detail and made you want to read the next book of the series of books. I can't wait to read the next books that there are.

Dragonfly and the web of dreams

I enjoyed this one because all the same characters are back and in the beginning her mom said she didn't put one of the boots in the garden but what she didn't know was that it was really a dwarf that was pretending to be a boot in her garden. He didn't notice that her mom took out all the boot's. Also the author added a lot of details to this story like she did to the first book.

It IS a beautiful world. It is, it is, it is.

2007-05-30T19:34:00.000-05:00

"This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger. Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning."

Garrison Keillor

Do you believe in magic?

2007-05-30T19:31:00.001-05:00

"I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. When I was twelve, the words was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present, and into the future. We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see out destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put in the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we’re told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wilderness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad at what they allowed to whither in themselves. After you get so far away fro it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get all weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theatre, the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm. The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks, and get crippled. It’s not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know its happening until one day you feel like you’ve lost something, but you’re not sure what it is."

-Robert McCammon

Rise above the foolish child

2007-05-30T19:28:00.000-05:00

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."

-Og Mandino

Impressionable

2007-05-25T16:18:00.000-05:00

"Each impression you make will--temporarily, at least--be your last. So make it strong."

~Harry Beckwith

Use your imagination wisely.

2007-05-25T16:17:00.000-05:00

"Worry is a misuse of the imagination."

-Dan Zadra

The best of the best

2007-05-25T16:16:00.000-05:00

"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

- John Wooden

A new attitude of gratitude.

2007-05-04T10:51:00.000-05:00

"Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us. "

-Ayya Khema, "When the Iron Eagle Flies"

Check your tribe.

2007-05-04T10:50:00.000-05:00

"We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into."

- Carolyn Myss

Problem-solving 101

2007-05-04T10:49:00.000-05:00

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."

- John Foster Dulles

Attitude

2007-04-17T11:29:00.000-05:00

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

-Charles Swindoll

Goethe

2007-04-17T11:24:00.000-05:00

“There are nine requisites for contented living:

HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;

WEALTH enough to support your needs;

STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;

GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;

PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;

CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;

LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;

FAITH enough to make real the things of God;

HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”

- Goethe

Who's number one?

2007-04-17T09:18:00.001-05:00

"It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility."

- Alan Cohen

I know the feeling. Do you?

2007-03-11T22:21:00.000-05:00

Do you know the feeling of wanting to try something new but being scared out of your brain to take the chance because what if, what IF you regret it in the end.

Well my question to you is: what if you don't?

Ponder this.

2007-03-11T22:18:00.000-05:00

Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor and halt all activity for an hour some day to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.

-James Truslow Adams

Karma

2007-03-11T22:17:00.000-05:00

Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma.

-Lama Thubten Yeshe, "The Bliss of Inner Fire"

Turn on your ears.

2007-03-11T22:16:00.000-05:00

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

-Rebecca Falls

Freedom

2007-03-11T22:15:00.000-05:00

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

-Carl Jung

Off the air

2007-03-11T22:14:00.000-05:00

"Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in."

- Anonymous

nods head

2007-03-03T12:04:00.000-06:00

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

-Carl Jung

Think about it.

2007-03-03T12:02:00.000-06:00

"What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think."

-Dr. Patrick Gentempo

It sure doesn't hurt to give this a try.

2007-03-03T12:01:00.000-06:00

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

-Goethe

So being a nut is good?

2007-03-03T12:00:00.000-06:00

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

-Anonymous

Patience

2007-01-13T14:54:00.000-06:00

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

-Saint Francis de Sales

Priorities

2007-01-13T14:49:00.000-06:00

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

-Doug Larson

Kitchen humor

2007-01-13T14:00:00.000-06:00

"I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking."
~Katherine Cebrian

Tis the season...

2006-12-11T21:04:00.000-06:00

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."

-Robert Orben

Got love?

2006-11-26T17:10:00.000-06:00

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Not everything is seen with your eyes.

2006-11-26T17:06:00.000-06:00

"When the night is cloudy, I still believe in stars,
Even when the darkness blocks the light.
They're shining out like beacons on the other side of hope.
You can see them when you hold your heart just right."

- Selia Qynn

Peace

2006-11-26T17:02:00.000-06:00

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

-Moshe Dayan

I would argue that it is actually your moments of indecision.

2006-11-20T19:53:00.000-06:00

"It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."
-Anthony Robbins

I bet Smith and Wesson would support this.

2006-11-18T12:31:00.000-06:00

"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire."

— T. Boone Pickens

Sometimes these quotes get sent to me just in the nick of time.

2006-11-18T12:27:00.000-06:00

"The best way to escape from a problem? Is to solve it!"

- Welsh Proverb

I LOVE THIS QUOTE!

2006-11-18T12:22:00.000-06:00

"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret."

- Tony Robbins

Finding comfort

2006-11-02T21:23:00.000-06:00

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

- Sydney J. Harris

Quotes should be insightful, thought-provoking or funny. This one is funny.

2006-11-02T21:20:00.000-06:00

"Failure isn't an option. It is bundled with your software."

~Unknown

Take on one new challenge.

2006-11-02T21:14:00.000-06:00

"When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever."

- Philip Adams

Today I wrote myself some affirmations that I can use in all areas of my life

2006-10-26T18:42:00.000-05:00

I am presented challenges throughout my day so that I can demonstrate the level of my character in how I address each challenge.

I am confided in because I am trustworthy. To be trusted is an honor not a chore and should be treated as such.

I am asked to mentor because I have proven that I can present ideas, share my experiences and add insight in ways that are valued.

I instinctively take the lead because I am confident in my skills and abilities as a leader. That does not make me an expert in everything, it means that I am comfortable managing tasks for myself and others and that I enjoy leading others so that they can feel appreciated and successful.

I am asked to solve complex problems because I have spent years learning and practicing effective techniques that enable me to logically think outside the box.

Every challenge is an opportunity to shine.

I will SHINE.

Your self worth will count for something eventually.

2006-10-23T20:24:00.000-05:00

"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."

-Anonymous

Damn. I hate it when I read a quote and feel like I got kicked in the ass at the same time.

2006-10-18T22:04:00.000-05:00

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."

— John Foster Dulles

Tripping over pebbles

2006-10-18T21:49:00.000-05:00

"Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones."

-Chinese Proverb

Alterations

2006-10-18T21:37:00.000-05:00

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

-William Law

Why is it my rocking chair always moves backwards?

2006-10-17T22:29:00.000-05:00

"Worrying is like being in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but does not get you anywhere."

- author unknown

So much for luxury accomodations.

2006-10-17T22:12:00.000-05:00

"Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition."

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

Being wrong is alright

2006-10-10T21:20:00.000-05:00

"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."

- Ralph Marston