January 2009
19 posts
“Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the...”
– W. Grant
Made me laugh out loud!!
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“It is better to fail in originality than it is to succeed in imitation”
– Unknown
It flew out at me this morning reading an article
“Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt”
– Unknown
Of flowers and life
“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong…Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?” “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” “When the...
Procrastination is ..........
“the thief of time”
“opportunity’s assassin” and “the grave in which opportunity is buried”
“like Masturbation …. in the end you’re just screwing yourself”
and on a positive note:
“Procrastination gives you something to look forward to”
“Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows...”
– ……… François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)
I am sitting here listening to the wind blowing wildly outside. I find it tremendously exciting. Tis indeed in itself a passionate force and put me in mind of this quote.
TRULY AMAZING
These are truly incredible. You’ll love the cool watermelons, but you’ll be blown away by the eggs! These eggs were cut with a high intensity precision Laser Beam. This gives a very good idea of what can be achieved with a Laser Beam. This gives you an idea what laser surgery performed on one’s eye is all about. Is it any wonder how one’s vision can be improved in just a...
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still...”
– Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
Rabindranath Tagore
The Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore has many quotes which I love.
Just a few to share as I awake on this misty Wednesday morning. All in quiet, save for the distant laughter of the school boys engaging in a game of rugger.
The mist gently, silently rolls acrros my world separating me from reality.
“Music fills the infinite between two souls”
“Trees are Earth’s endless effort to...
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come...”
– Charles Palahniuck
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
– William Shedd
Often we don’t want to face all the baggage from the past. We parcel it up and file it away. There it collects dust, getting heavier and dirtier by the years. We feel safe and able to cope and forget about it. Eventually of course we stumble over it or worse it is uncovered by...
“Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and...”
– Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”
– Henry Ward Breecher
Even now the youngest is 21!
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“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
– …….Unknown
December 2008
8 posts
