----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael Martinez" <[email protected]> To: "'Cynthia Groopman'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:21 AM Subject: Today's Thoughts
> The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him > absolutely > no good. > --Samuel Johnson > The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all > your money. > --Unknown > I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may > be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our > happiness or misery depends > > upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances. > --Martha Washington > > For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words > await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. > --T.S. Eliot > People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New > Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the > New > Year and > > Christmas. > --Unknown > We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on > them ourselves. The book is called "Opportunity" and its first chapter is > New Year's Day. > --Edith Lovejoy Pierce > > An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist > stays up to make sure the old year leaves. > --Bill Vaughan > A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the > other. > --Unknown > Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let > each > new year find you a better man. > --Benjamin Franklin > > Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself > the courage of other persons. > --Ralph Waldo Emerson > Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it > takes to sit down and listen. > --Winston Churchill > The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of > a > final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and > tragedy. > --John F. Kennedy > > Many of our fears are tissue paper thin and a single courageous step would > carry us clear through them. > --Brendan Francis > An optimist laughs to forget. A pessimist forgets to laugh. > --Unknown > To succeed, we must first believe that we can. > --Michael Korda > > Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself > the courage of other persons. > --Ralph Waldo Emerson > Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. > Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures. A pat on > the back. A kiss behind the > > ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling > fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold tea. > --Unknown > Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your > own. > --Harold Coffin > > Patience is passion tamed. > --Lyman Abbott > When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so > long > at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for > us. > --Helen Keller > The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift. > --Pierre Corneille > > An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart. > --David Augsburger > Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth and a clear > conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to > usefulness and high > > achievement. > --Grover Cleveland > The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to > let > it come in. > --Morrie Schwartz > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
