----- Original Message ----- From: Rafael Martinez To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: Today's thoughts
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. --Thomas Carlyle Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in. --Unknown Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. --Norman Vincent Peale Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast; you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. --Eddie Cantor What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. --Thomas Carlyle When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. --Blaise Pascal All progress is precarious and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. --Martin Luther King, Jr. The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. --George Bernard Shaw You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. --Warren Beatty If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. --Robert Quillen I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. --Kahlil Gibran Contentment comes from wanting what you have, ambition from wanting what the other person has and progress from wanting what nobody has. --Bob Lewis Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. --William Arthur Ward Praise is the element of heaven. Self-forgotten, it is the Lamb that is remembered. --Andrew Bonar I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. --Buzz Aldrin We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants or the special subject of our petitions. --Albert Barnes As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. --Seneca He will cover you with His feathers and under His wings, you will find refuge. --Psalm 91:4 Be still when you have nothing to say, when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say and say it hot. --D.H. Lawrence We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. --Eric Hoffer It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. --Euripides Hating people is like burning down your own house to try to get rid of a rat. --Harry Emerson Fosdick The future lies before you like a field of driven snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. Just about a month from now, I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. --Richard Halliburton My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." --Jim Fox There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. --Orrin Hatch For every mountain, there is a miracle. --Robert H. Schuller 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 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. --Albert Einstein One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. --Sigmund Freud Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. --Epictetus Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. --Dr. Benjamin Spock The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. --Ann Landers He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a king. --John Milton I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort. --Elizabeth T. King Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. --Unknown The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. --Whitney Young Christmas waves a magic wand over this world and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. --Norman Vincent Peale Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. --W.J. Cameron I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. --Charles Dickens He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. --Roy L. Smith The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. --Burton Hillis It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. --W.T. Ellis You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside. --Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. --Harold B. Melchart As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. --Thomas A. Edison --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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