From Coast to Coast Creations

A friend knows the song in my heart ad sings it to me when my memory fails

Love is shown in your deeds not in your words

Everyone is the age of their heart

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

Life's completeness and richness depends on the things we share with our loved ones and friends

Take pride in how far you've come, have faith in how far you can go.

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday, and celebrate just living.

Smiles are the souls of kisses

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows

They say that age is all in your mind,  The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.

May the memories that we give record the life that we live

Everything is better when shared with a friend

Friendship is a word the very sight of in print makes the heart warm

Great ideas are the fuel of progress

Keep your friendships in repair

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup. whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Living on one's own is not always ideal, but then, neither is marriage.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.  I will tell the truth whenever I please.

Be happy, it's one way of being wise.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory

Shoot for the moon,  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet ad the wind longs to play with your hair.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy.  It's only necesary to be rich.

Happy is he who causes scandel.

Never say never.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

Man forgives a woman everything save the wit to outwit him

If you really want to be happy, no one can stop you.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.  He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it is something you remember.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heartt and his friends can only  read the title.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

You're ageing when your actions creak louder than your words.

In a sky full of stars it's amazing to find that each is one of a kind.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

If passion drives let reason hold the reins.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Sometimes I believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~ Lewis Carroll

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Make the most of every situation.

One good turn deserves another.

No gains without pains.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Let the punishment fit the crime

Faith is the abilty to not panic.

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands - one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.

New day, new fate.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

Practice makes perfect.

No time like the present.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance.  They'll say it's stolen or else it was by chance.

Like a kite, cut from the string.  Lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight. 

I am not eccentric.  It's just that I am more alive than most people.  I am an unpopular electric eel, set in a pond of goldfish.

Mess with the bull and one usually gets the horns.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

A birthday is just the first day of another 365 - day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

However long the night, the dawn will break.

A friend loves at all times.

Life is so short, so fast the lone hous fly, we ought to be together you and I.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Every tear has a smile behind it.

Learning is best when put into practice.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

When it comes to staying young, a mindlift beats a facelift any day.

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd walk through a garden forever.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him

There is a crack in everything.  That's how light gets in.

If you think you can or you think you an't you are right.

Our desires are the cause of our sufferings and pain in life

Sometimes, it's too little, too late

I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms

He that cannot obey, cannot command

When in doubt......mumble.

Praise the young and they will blossom

Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand

Proverbs are the daughters of experience

Nothing is difficult if you're used to it,

Take life as it comes

It ain't over til it's over.

I feel sure no girl would go to the altar if she knew all ~ Queen Victoria

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds

Nothing exists unless it's on paper

You're my world my life my everything

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do, doesn't mean it's useless.

Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can

I am at my meanest when I feel the greatest tenderness

Life's a banquet and most poor fools are starving to death

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Never mistake tknowledge for wisdom.  One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

I don't have time every day to put on makeup.  I need that time to clean my rifle. ~ Henriette Mantel

I never realise until lately that women are supposed to be inferior

Wherever you go, no matter what the weathe, always bring your own sunshine.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Nothig is as burdensome as a secret.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains.

I am no longer afraid of storms, for I am learning how to said my own ship.

When women go wrong men go right after them.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

I cannot live without books.

The love of learnng, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

If I am not I, who will I be?

Be happy.  It's one way of being wise.

Happiness is goof health and a bad memory.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship isn't a big thing - it is a million little things.

I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms.

When three womwn join together the stars come out in broad daylight.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends, they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes.  It involves Russia.

Books are not made ofr furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood.  Only today does the fire burn brightly.

Things don't change.  You change your way of looking, that's all.

Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning - definitely the sensation of belonging there.

Man comes of age at sixty, woman at fifteen.

I want a man that is kind and understanding.  Iss that too much to ask of a millionaire?

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

 

Never look a gift horse in the mouth ~ John Heywood

Our handicaps exist only in our minds ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nothing is a waste of timeif you use the exerience wisely ~ Auguste Rodin

Procrastination only adds STRESS to your life

Live and let live

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong. ~ Ben Franklin

Keep your nose to the GRINDSTONE

Record only the sunny hour

It takes one to know one

Make do with what you have

By crawling a child learns to stand

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone.  It merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on this wall. ~ Doug Featherling

Nothing is impossible to the willing mind.

Look before you leap

Property has its duties as well as its rights

Nothing is easy to the unwilling

Experience is the best teacher

Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship

Within your heart keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. ~ Louise Driscoll

To err is human, to blame it on someone else shows management potential.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

You're only old once. ~ Dr Seuss

I want the mornings to last longer and the twilight to linger, I want to clutch the present to my bosom and never let it go.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

There is something sadder than growing old - remaining a child.

Nothing seems expensive on credit

Into every life a little rain must fall

Haste makes waste

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back

6 feet of earth makes us all equal

If it ain't broke, do't fix it.

If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot.

Thank goodness for patience,

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

Procrastination only adds STRESS to your life

Habit causes love....love depends on habit quite as much as the wild ways of passion.

Insist on yourself, never imitate

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

You can take no credit for beautyat sixteen.  But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.

Let us take care hat age does not make more wrinkles on our spirit than on our face

The secret of humour is surprise

May the outward and inward man be one

God gave us ou memories so that we might have roses in December

I don't know what the big deal is about old age.  Old people who shine from inside look ten to twenty years younger. ~ Dolly Parton

A brook would lose its song if God removed the rocks

It's not what you say it's how you say it

Thanks cost nothing

Love to remember....and love that lasts

Lovers remember everything

It takes  long time to make old friends

Health is better than wealth

A burden that one choses is not felt

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but if you will sit quietyly may alight upon you. ~ Nathaniel Hawthornw

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Keep an open mind

Nothing goes on forever

Pleasures are transient - honors immortal

Stupid is as stupid does

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

Man cannot live by bread alone

Share love and it grows; share sorrow and it lessens.

Live and let live

Nothing succeeds like success

There is no remedy for love, but to love more

 

 

 

 

“No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world's work.”
- Woodrow Wilson
 
“To hide one lie, a thousand lies are needed.”
- India
 
“The only thing money gives you is the freedom not to worry about money.”
- Johnny Carson
 
“If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”
- Benjamin Franklin
 
“The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.”
- Annie Dillard
 
“No two children are ever born into the same family.”
- Leo Rosten
 
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
- Mother Teresa
 
“The eyes of my eyes are opened.”
- e.e. cummings
 
“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”
- Cicero
 
“Service is the very purpose of life. It is the rent we pay for living on the planet.”
- Marion Wright Edelman
 
“Where there is no vision, a people perish.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
“Most people will go to their graves with their music still in them.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
 
“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
- Hegel
 
“We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
- Cesare Pavese
 
“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more begins to make sense.”
- Harold Kushner
 
“One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.”
- Lillian Hellman
 
“Give a man a job he loves and he will never work a day in his life.”
- Confucius
 
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
- Lily Tomlin
 
 “The next life or tomorrow … we can never be certain which will come first.”
- Tibetan proverb
 
"The friends that have it I do wrong When ever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake." William Butler Yeats
 
Come live with me and be my love and we will some new pleasures prove of golden sands and crystal brooks with silken lines and silver hooks. John Donne
 
Will Rogers: "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."
 
Slovenian Proverb: "Speak the truth, but leave immediately after."
 
Porterfield: "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little."
 
Tallulah Bankhead: "I'm as pure as the driven slush."
 
Goethe (1749-1832): "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
 
Father Larry Lorenzoni: "The average person thinks he isn't."
 
"As long as man is curious about his fellowman, that appetite
alone will keep him alive."

For excitement, give me a country walk any day; and I'm inclined
to think there's a good deal more adventure to be had by just
opening the curtains in the morning.
Edmund Crispin

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure....
It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems
with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.
== William Orville Douglas

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This
excitement is like a forest fire "you can smell it, taste it, and
see it from a mile away."
==Denis Waitley

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without
any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship
of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him
the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
==Rachel Louise Carson

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long
after the excitement of the moment has passed.�
==Cavett Robert
 
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I
may learn how to do it.
==Pablo Picasso

"I only meant to say that the problem seems an
insurmountable one."

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
==George Eliot

I think, though, that the more we acknowledge art
in our lives, the more human we become.
==(the princess) Ann Woodward
 
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
== R. Buckminster Fuller

Sanity is a madness put to good use.
==George Santayana

You've achieved success in your field when you don't
know whether what you're doing is work or play.
==Warren Beatty

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas
must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
==H. L. Mencken

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less
than its operating manual.
==Terry Pratchett

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." .....Andre Gide
 
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
==Chinese Proverb
 
“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.”
- Margaret Millar
 
only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot
 
“The goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.”
- Abraham Heschel
 
“Passion is about allowing yourself to get lost in something.”
- Gail Sheehy
 
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.”
- Henry David Thoreau
 
“The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
“If you can't do it with love and cheerfulness, don't do it at all, go home.”
- Mother Teresa 43Things
 
“I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
- E. B. White
 
“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
- Bob Hope
 
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
 
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein
 
“Before a man can conquer the world, he must learn to conquer himself.”
- Alexander The Great
 
“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.”
- Jackie Mason
 
“If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful.”
- Jeanne, 8 years old
 
“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
- Gloria Steinhem
 
“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
- Mother Teresa
 
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live.”
- Norman Cousins
 
 “Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man.”
 
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)
 
To bathe a cat takes brute force, preseverance, courage of conviction and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
 
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
Bruce Springsteen
 
The idealist is incorrigible: If he is thrown out of his heaven, he makes an ideal of his hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
Author: Michael Jordan "I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
 
The advantage of a bad memory is that
one enjoys several times the same good
things for the first time.
== Friedrich Nietzsche

He is indebted to his memory for his jests
and to his imagination for his facts.
==Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A retentive memory is a good thing, but the
ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
==Elbert Hubbard

Memory is the cabinet of imagination,
the treasury of reason, the registry of
conscience, and the council chamber
of thought.
==Saint Basil

It doesn't matter who my father was;
it matters who I remember he was.
==Anne Sexton

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them
as much as you please.
==Mark Twain

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything
that is in us and around us into action; let the others
talk and argue about it as they please.
==Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

Women and Cats will do as they please.
Men and dogs had better get used to it.
==Robert Heinlein.
 
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most
honorable of men, I will find something in them which
will hang him.
==Cardinal Richelieu

The trouble with young writers is that they are
all in their sixties.
==W. Somerset Maugham

Whenever two people meet there are really six
people present. There is each man as he sees
himself, each man as the other person sees him,
and each man as he really is.
==William James

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed
inflammation of the sentence structure and definite
hardening of the paragraphs
==James Grover Thurber

In everything the middle course is the best;
everything in excess brings trouble.
==Titus Maccius Plautus.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the
middle of millions of starving people.
==Gloria Steinem

Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle
of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.
==Unknown

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
==Robert Frost

Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the
woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.
==April Foiles

You are, at this moment, standing right in the middle
of your own acres of diamonds.
==Earl Nightingale

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our
primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific
forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to
release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
==Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.

Jump into the middle of things,
get your hands dirty,
fall flat on your face,
and then reach for the stars.
==Joan L. Curcio

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from
both sides.
==George P. Shultz

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle
of the road. They get run over.
==Aneurin Bevan

All that I see outside
Is because I look in
All that I see inside
Is because I look out
==Michael Hickey

The mind and the world are opposites, and the vision
arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir
inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world
and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision.
And such understanding is true understanding.
==Bodhidharma

As we open our senses, our capacity for connection with
the world outside and within us increases tremendously,
and we open the way for some amazing writing to pour forth.
==Gayle Brandeis

It may be that all writers come to their craft from a sense
of being on the margins of life, of seeing the world with an
outsider’s eye and needing to make sense of it.
==Sara Paretsky

If you must see a tree, clean, clear, and bright;
For God's sake and mine, look outside your heart and write.
==Robert Hogan


There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags
do not wave in a vacuum.
==Arthur C. Clarke

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit
on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit
throats.
== H. L. Mencken

We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag
into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic
engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
==Ernest K. Gann.


There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that
those things which make us human are, curiously
enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that
on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny
blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and
not only may he be ours, he may be us.
== Walt Kelly

Our flag is red, white and blue,
but our nation is a rainbow—
red, yellow, brown, black and white—
and we're all precious in God's sight.
== Jesse Jackson

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
==Marianne Moore.

Einstein's Three Rules of Work: 1) Out of clutter find
simplicity;
2) From discord find harmony;
3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
=Albert Einstein


Always read stuff that will make you look good
if you die in the middle of it.
==P.J. O'Rourke

You will go most safely in the middle.
==Ovid
 
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint,
something inside always reminds or informs you that
there are bigger and better things to worry about.
==Albert Einsteim. The World as I See It.
 
Negsative capability comes to a sort of emptying of
the self, suspending judgments, so as to imagine
others and even the natural from the inside.
==Robert Wallace and Michelle Boisseau.

[A] great book, as Proust once asserted, is never
"invented by a great writerâ€"it exists already inside
himâ€"but it has to be translated by him.
==Mark Ford
 
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals
something disgraceful. A man who gives a good
account of himself is probably lying, since any
life when viewed from the inside is simply a series
of defeats.
== George Orwell

How can I be useful, of what service can I be?
There is something inside me, what can it be?
==Vincent Van Gogh
 
Never stick your tongue out at anyone you can’t lick.
Sid Bolon
 
 "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-
ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

 As Benson once said, "A man's best chance to produce something which will please others is to represent as faithfully as he can what pleases him, in the way he likes it best." He succeeded admirably.
Frank W Benson american painter

 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Coleridge

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
Shigenori Kameoka

Love...'Tis second life, it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
Joseph Addison

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
G K Chesterton

Come live with me and be my love and we will some new pleasures prove of golden sands and crystal brooks with silken lines and silver hooks. John Donne

Will Rogers: "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

Slovenian Proverb: "Speak the truth, but leave immediately after."

Porterfield: "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little."

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'm as pure as the driven slush."

Goethe (1749-1832): "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

Father Larry Lorenzoni: "The average person thinks he isn't."

"As long as man is curious about his fellowman, that appetite
alone will keep him alive."
===(Brother Cadfael), Ellis Peters

For excitement, give me a country walk any day; and I'm inclined
to think there's a good deal more adventure to be had by just
opening the curtains in the morning.
==(Cadogan) Edmund Crispin

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure....
It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems
with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.
== William Orville Douglas

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This
excitement is like a forest fire 'you can smell it, taste it, and
see it from a mile away.'
==Denis Waitley

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I
may learn how to do it.
==Pablo Picasso

"I only meant to say that the problem seems an
insurmountable one."

"In my experience, all problems start out from that
viewpoint. But solving a problem means that you have
to start out instead of staying still. Once your viewpoint
changes then you change you view."
==(Cass & Sister Fidelma) Peter Tremayne

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
==George Eliot

I think, though, that the more we acknowledge art
in our lives, the more human we become.
==(the princess) Ann Woodward

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
== R. Buckminster Fuller

Sanity is a madness put to good use.
==George Santayana

You've achieved success in your field when you don't
know whether what you're doing is work or play.
==Warren Beatty

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas
must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
==H. L. Mencken

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less
than its operating manual.
==Terry Pratchett

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." .....Andre Gide

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
==Chinese Proverb

“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.”
- Margaret Millar

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot

“The goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.”
- Abraham Heschel

“Passion is about allowing yourself to get lost in something.”
- Gail Sheehy

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you can't do it with love and cheerfulness, don't do it at all, go home.”
- Mother Teresa

“I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
- E. B. White

“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
- Bob Hope

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein

“Before a man can conquer the world, he must learn to conquer himself.”
- Alexander The Great

“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.”
- Jackie Mason

“If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful.”
- Jeanne, 8 years old

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
- Gloria Steinhem

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
- Mother Teresa

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live.”
- Norman Cousins

“Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man.”

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

To bathe a cat takes brute force, preseverance, courage of conviction and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
Bruce Springsteen

The idealist is incorrigible: If he is thrown out of his heaven, he makes an ideal of his hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Michael Jordan "I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."


Don't take life to seriously,,,, No one gets out alive!!!!!

If I could sit on the front porch with God, the first thing i would do is thank him for you...........

The advantage of a bad memory is that
one enjoys several times the same good
things for the first time.
== Friedrich Nietzsche

He is indebted to his memory for his jests
and to his imagination for his facts.
==Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A retentive memory is a good thing, but the
ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
==Elbert Hubbard

Memory is the cabinet of imagination,
the treasury of reason, the registry of
conscience, and the council chamber
of thought.
==Saint Basil

It doesn't matter who my father was;
it matters who I remember he was.
==Anne Sexton

"As long as man is curious about his fellowman, that appetite
alone will keep him alive."
===(Brother Cadfael), Ellis Peters

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them
as much as you please.
==Mark Twain

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything
that is in us and around us into action; let the others
talk and argue about it as they please.
==Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Women and Cats will do as they please.
Men and dogs had better get used to it.
==Robert Heinlein

Whenever two people meet there are really six
people present. There is each man as he sees
himself, each man as the other person sees him,
and each man as he really is.
==William James

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the
middle of millions of starving people.
==Gloria Steinem

Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle
of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.
==Unknown

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
==Robert Frost

Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the
woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.
==April Foiles

You are, at this moment, standing right in the middle
of your own acres of diamonds.
==Earl Nightingale

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our
primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific
forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to
release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
==Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Jump into the middle of things,
get your hands dirty,
fall flat on your face,
and then reach for the stars.
==Joan L. Curcio

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from
both sides.
==George P. Shultz

All that I see outside
Is because I look in
All that I see inside
Is because I look out
==Michael Hickey

The mind and the world are opposites, and the vision
arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir
inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world
and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision.
And such understanding is true understanding.
==Bodhidharma

As we open our senses, our capacity for connection with
the world outside and within us increases tremendously,
and we open the way for some amazing writing to pour forth.
==Gayle Brandeis

If you must see a tree, clean, clear, and bright;
For God's sake and mine, look outside your heart and write.
==Robert Hogan

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit
on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit
throats.
== H. L. Mencken