| PROBLEMS "The obstacle is the path."-- Zen Proverb "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." --Erica Jong "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" - Leo Tolstoy "When all else is lost, the future still remains." -- Christian Nestell Bovee "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" --Sydney Harris "Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones." --Chinese Proverb When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. --John Renmerde "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." -- Thomas Alva Edison "It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself." --Eleanor Roosevelt "If you wait long enough, your future will reveal itself." --Garry Trudeau "When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents the danger and the other represents opportunity." --John F. Kennedy "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. " --Chinese Proverb "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." --Basho "I've learned that if I make a wrong choice, the world doesn't end; it just goes right on." --Mary Tyler Moore "Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was young and my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use." --Carlos Castenada "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." -- Aristotle "Difficulties exist to be surmounted." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it." --Ivan Bloch "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -- Seneca "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." --Theodore Roosevelt "Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a friend's forehead." --Chinese Proverb "Acceptance of what happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune." --William James "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." --John Steinbeck "I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel." --Gloria Naylor "The most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action." --William Burnham "The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides." --Henri Fredric Amiel Continued on page 2 |