10 posts tagged “courtesy of kimmie”
Daily Quote
~ William Shakespeare ~
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand.
~ Hippocrates ~
Laughter is brightest where food is best.
~ Irish Proverb ~
I don't dream at night, I dream all day;
I dream for a living.
~ Steven Spielberg ~
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
~ Tom Brokaw ~
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
~ Pamela Vaull Starr ~
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.
~ Chinese Proverb ~
Common sense is as rare as genius.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
~ Soren Kierkegaard ~
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
~ Virginia Wolf ~
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
~ Sir Winston Churchill ~
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat.He stores up a lot of poison.
~ Truman Capote ~
Most people want to be delivered from temptation,but would like to keep in touch.
~ Robert Orben ~
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~ Edmund Burke ~
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
If only God would give me some clear sign!
Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
~ Woody Allen ~
Success is relative.
It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
~ T.S. Eliot ~
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
~ John Russell ~
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
~ Eric Hoffer ~
War is not an adventure.It is a disease.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.
~ General George S. Patton ~
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
~ Buddha ~
There's magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
~ Alfred Noyes ~
Never argue with a fool.Listeners can't tell which is which.
~ Unknown ~
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
~ William Shakespeare ~
If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others.
~ La Rochefoucauld ~
Here's the deal, with my new found internet connection I hope to be posting one of these once a week instead of the once in a life time postings I've been doing. Besides it'll help with my writing exercise. Moving on.....
Inspiration
~ Socrates ~
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
~ Alexander Graham Bell ~
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
~ Grenville Kleiser ~
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them;
power flows to the man who knows how.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
It's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what you have left.
~ Hubert Humphrey ~
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us.
~ Voltaire ~
Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.
~ Irish Saying ~
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
~ Greg Anderson ~
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
~ Aristotle ~
Life is the first gift, love is the second and understanding the third.
~ Marge Piercy ~
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
~ Lin Yutang ~
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
What is wrong with our world is that love is in short supply.
~ Christopher Bryant ~
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~ Norman Vincent Peale ~
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
~ Louise Hay ~
Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.
~ Malcolm Forbes ~
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Ghandi ~
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
~ Stephen Covey ~
One learns people through the heart, no the eyes of the intellect.
~ Mark Twain ~
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
~ Al Capp ~
People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.
~ Laurie Beth Jones ~
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
~ Buddha ~
If you think you can win, you can win.
Faith is necessary to victory.
~ William Hazlitt ~
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
Lessons are usually where you look for them.
You can learn something from anyone.
~ Brian Koval ~
Love - it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
~ Kahil Gibran ~
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
~ Unknown ~
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
~ Dale Carnegie ~
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~ Kahil Gibran ~
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
And within reach for every hand.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be.
Become one yourself.
~ Marcus Aurelius ~
Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
~ Kahil Gibran ~
You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
~ Andrew Carnegie ~
If you walk, you can dance.
If you can talk, you can sing.
~ Zimbabwe Proverb ~
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Confucius ~
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
~ Fredrich Nietzsche ~
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
~ Mike Wickett ~
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
~ Roy Goodman ~
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
~ Aristotle ~
One of these days writing of some sort will be a daily thing. I'm steadily working it into my life's schedule. Anyhoo, here's today's inspired installment:
Inspiration
~ Socrates ~
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take actions.
~ Alexander Graham Bell ~
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
~ Grenville Kleiser ~
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power flows to the man who knows how.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~
Daily Quote
~ William Shakespeare ~
Prayer indeed is good, but hile calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand.
~ Hippocrates ~
You are given three names in life.
The one you inherit, the one your parents give you,
and the name you make for yourself.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
It's been a long time since I took the time out to do some purposeful writing (not counting yesterday), or shared any of the inspirational texts Kim's been sending me. So, go crab a cup of hot coco, sit back and enjoy the read!
Inspirations
This is the secret to success.
~ Swami Sivananda ~
Friends are the sunshine of life.
~ John Hay ~
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
~ Japanese Proverb ~
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~ Helen Keller ~
Each day comes bearing its own gifts.Untie the ribbons.
~ Ruth Ann Schabacker ~
If music be the food of love play on.
~ William Shakespeare ~
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone else deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tse ~
Everything that has beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that and all will be well.
~ The Buddha ~
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
~ Alfred Adler ~
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
~ Stephen R. Covey ~
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
~ Alexander Chase ~
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which you must see the world.
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world,
but leads us deeper into it.
~ Henti J. M. Nouwen ~
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
~ John Dewey ~
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
~ Helen Keller ~
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it,
and not according to the work or place.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
In the end it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
Of all the things you wear,
your expression is the most important.
~ Janet Lane ~
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
~ Duke Ellington ~
I haven't failed.
I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
~ Thomas Edison ~
To live is like to love - All reason is against it,
and all healthy instinct is for it.
~ Samuel Butler ~
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.
~ Norman Vicent Peale ~
Daily Quotes
~ Satchel Paige ~
Oh, we all get run over once in our lives.
But one must pick oneself up again and behave as if it were nothing.
~ Henrik Ibsen ~
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
~ Harold R. McAlindon ~
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
~ George Orwell ~
He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience
is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
~ Ling Po ~
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
~ Johan Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Religion is to do right.
It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
~ Don Herold ~
It's easy to make a buck.
It's alot tougher to make a difference.
~ Tom Brokaw ~
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
~ Pamela Vaull Starr ~
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
~ John W. Gardner ~
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living.
It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Any girl can be glamorous.
All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
~ Hedy Lamarr ~
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
~ Golda Meir ~
Sex is the thing that takes up the least amount of time and cause the most amount of trouble.
~ John Barrymore ~
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent;
doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel ~
What would you attempt, if you knew you could not fail?
~ Anthony Robbins ~
I guess now would be as good of a time as any to explain why Kimmie shows up so much on my blog. Well she's one of my closest friends (actually we're family) and she sends me these text messages she receives. The quotes and such are too good not to share. Besides, it allows me to keep writing, no matter what it is. One of the things I'm trying to expand upon. Anyhoo.....Here's another dose of Kim's wisdom. Just passing it on.
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
~ Stephen Covey ~
My friend Kim will probably sock me a good one after she's seen how many times I've refered to her as Kimmie. =o) But she's very insiteful and has sent me many things worth thinking about. Get a load of this anonymous quote she sent me today:
The worst thng about being lied to is knowing that you weren't worth the truth.
Isn't that something?
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
~ Hubert Humphrey ~
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
~ Gypsy Rose Lee ~
~ Frank Bering ~