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"The
greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our
circumstances." --Martha Washington "Winning isn't everything. *Wanting* to win is." --Catfish Hunter, baseball pitcher "Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit." --Rita Mae Brown Know when *not* to say it: "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." --Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." --Publius "Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken." --Orson Rega Card Ask yourself why the New York City subway system, alone of all the mass transit systems in the world, has maps inside rather than outside the trains. It's to force you to get on the wrong train in order to find out where you're going... You decipher the map to discover that the first step in reaching your destination is to get off the wrong train at the next stop. -- Calvin Trillin The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. "Come on buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here." -- Jerry Seinfeld "You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself." --Pearl Bailey "Fortune favors the brave." --Proverb "It is never too late to give up your prejudices." --Henry David Thoreau Maintain a healthy skepticism when you invest: "The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." --Frank M. Hubbard "Never invest you money in anything that eats or needs repairing." --Billy Rose "If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice." --Norman Augustine It was tragic. They arrested an Amish man and put him in jail. Think about it. It's terrible. It's worse than me and you. Take him down there. Give him that one phone call. Who the hell is he going to call? None of his friends have telephones. -- Mario Joyner People in New York are always in a hurry. When you call 911, the operator says "This better be good." -- David Letterman "Work hard at several projects. That way, no matter what is going wrong, something will be going right." -- Donna Hanover "If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least." --Herman Melville (in Moby Dick) "I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right." --Chick Corea Even if you can't control fate, you can control yourself: "Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." --Michel de Montaigne "Man cannot live without self-control." --Isaac Bashevis Singer "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." --Seneca "We first make our habits, then our habits make us." --English Poet "If who i am is what i have and what i have is lost, then who am i?" --anonymous "it is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ouselves against the law." --Cecil B. Demille (movie director) "Im starting with the man in the mirror Im asking him to change his ways and no messege could have been clearer. If you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself, and then make a change. --Siedon Garrett and Glen Ballard "The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort--he never stretches to his full capacity, he never stands up to his full statue." --Arnold Bennett "People are just about as happy as they makeup their mind to be." --Abraham Lincoln (US President) "Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I AM THE FORCE." --Elaine Maxwell "It's no the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." --Edmun Hillary (first person to climb Mount Everest) "Two roads diverged in a wood. And I-- I took the one less traveledby, And that has made all the difference." --Robert Frost (POET) "Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for eachother?" --Martin Luther King Jr. "One kind word can warm three winter months." --Japanese saying "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it then the next man." --C.S. Lewis (AUTHOR) "Listen, or thy tongue will make thee deaf." --Native American Proverb "Synergy doesn't just happen...it's a process you have to get there." --unknown "If you can simply learn to think well, you will have plenty of career and ducation options to choose from." --unknown "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: Kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. --Mother Teresa  We see them come. We see them go. Some are fast. And some are slow. Some are high. And some are low. Not one of them is like another. Don't ask us why. Go ask your mother. --anonymous The following poem by an unknown source tells the sad tale of what happens when people pre-judge one another. THE COLD WITHIN Six humans trapped by happenstance,in bleak and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story's told. Their dieing fire in need of logs, the first man held his back. For of the faces 'round the fire, he noticed one was black. The next man looking 'cross the way saw one not of his church, And couldn't bring himself to give the fire his stick of birch. The third one sat in tattered clothes, he gave his coat a hitch, Why should his log be put to use to warm the idle rich? The rich man just sat back and thought of the wealth he had in store, And how to keep what he had earned from the lazy, shiftless poor. The black man's face bespoke revenge as the fire passed from sight, For all he saw in his stick of wood was a chance to spite the white. The last man of this forlorn group did naught except for gain, Giving only to those who gave how he played the game. Their logs held tight in death's still hand was proof of human sin, They didn't die from the cold without--they died from the cold within. |
