----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael Martinez" <[email protected]> To: "'Cynthia Groopman'" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:43 PM Subject: Today's Thoughts
> My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a > fight against wrong. > --Mother Jones > When you walk with wise men, you will become wise, but a companion of > fools > will be destroyed. > --Proverbs 13:20 > Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure that there is one > less > scoundrel in the world. > --Thomas Carlyle > > Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have > to > love yourself to get anything done in this world. > --Lucille Ball > We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way, love conquers all, that good > outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the > eleventh > hour, something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it > happens. > --Brooks Atkinson > The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. > If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit divine > characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics. > --Oswald Chambers > > Blind Date > "That was nice of you to set up a blind date for your ex-boyfriend." > "I know, but I don't hold any grudges." > "I'm surprised he trusted you enough to agree to go out with her." > "Well, I had to swear to him she's Jennifer Lopez's double." > "Wow! Is that true?" > "I wouldn't lie. She's twice her weight and twice her age." > Daily Thoughts > Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important > ongoing > activity. > --Paul Goodman > I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the > monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a > little > too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of > good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share > life's beauty with you. > --J. Kenfield Morley > I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has > to > be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, > you can't do any better. > --Harry S. Truman > > The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its > irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for > the > public rather than off the public. > --Robert F. Kennedy > So, then, to every man his chance. To every man, regardless of his birth, > his shining golden opportunity. To every man, his right to live, to work, > to > be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to > make him. This seeker is the promise of America. > --Thomas Wolfe > Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch. Handing it > on > to future generations. > --Shaw > > I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. > --Albert Einstein > 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 > The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we > will > hear Him. > --William McGill > > Be nice to people on your way up. You might need them on the way down. > --Jimmy Durante > I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. > --Tom Stoppard > Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your > temper or your self-confidence. > --Robert Frost > > Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your > country. > --John F. Kennedy > Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs > nothing and conveys much. > --Erastus Wiman > When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes > off against the wind, not with it. > --Henry Ford > The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what > we > are for what we could become. > --Charles Du Bos > Courage is fear that has said its prayers. > --Unknown > Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and > you've lost part of your life. > --Michael Leboeuf > > The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. > --J. Harold Wilkins > Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So, love the people who treat > you > right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a > reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes > your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it > would be worth it. > --Unknown > Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be > overcome. > --Samuel Johnson > > Daily Thoughts > Find ecstasy in life. The mere sense of living is joy enough. > --Emily Dickinson > Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a > very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. > --Oscar Wilde > To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest > proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. > --William Hazlitt > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
