----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Cynthia Groopman'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 3:42 PM Subject: Daily Thoughts
> First, say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do. > --Epictetus > Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. > --Franklin D. Roosevelt > Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. > --Harvey Fierstein > ***** > Most people would like to be delivered from temptation, but would like it > to > keep in touch. > --Robert Orben > He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire, because diamonds are > not > found in polished stones. They are made. > --Henry B. Wilson > Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to > all that befalls him. > --Romain Gary > ***** > A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in > and > how many want out. > --Tony Blair > God understands our prayers even when we can't find the word to say them. > --Unknown > Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we will pay > any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose > any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. > --John F. Kennedy > ***** > Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch. Handing it > on > to future generations. > --Shaw > Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain. > --Unknown > Enjoy the little things, for one day, you may look back and realize they > were the big things. > --Robert Brault > ***** > I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. > --Tallulah Bankhead > The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart, far more damaging > to yourself than to them. > --Unknown > What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. > --Jewish proverb > ***** > Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do > in > the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. > --Helen Keller > My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said > that > 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and > done > the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others and that's > nice > too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and > forget about success.'" > --Helen Hayes > If there is one thing upon this Earth that mankind love and admire better > than another, it is a brave man. It is the man who dares to look the devil > in the face and tell him he is a devil. > --James A. Garfield > ***** > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
