Friday, March 30, 2012

Gratefully content...



“There was a man who was complaining about having no shoes 
until he saw a man with no feet” 
~Persian proverb

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Our only regrets...





The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy 
and envy.

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 1939) is an Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

What is happiness?


Happiness is not a station you arrive at, 

but a manner of traveling.”

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck



Margaret Lee Runbeck (U.S. author, 1905-1956) 
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Margaret Lee Runbeck first appeared in print a few weeks before her thirteenth birthday.  

Friday, March 23, 2012

Music is Love...

Music is love 


 in search of a word.  


~Sidney Lanier  

Sidney Lanier was born in Macon on February 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe University, when it was located near Milledgeville, in 1860 with high honors. 

When the Civil War (1861-65) began, he volunteered to serve in the Confederate army. In 1864 he was captured and held as a prisoner of war for four months in Maryland, during which time he contracted the debilitating tuberculosis that plagued him for the rest of his life. His marriage to Mary Day in 1867 led to the births of four sons. Rarely fully focused on one occupational pursuit, Lanier had difficulty maintaining steady employment and providing for his family; he worked in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas as a tutor, teacher, and law clerk. He was frequently impoverished and sometimes ill with the ever-present tuberculosis, which was exacerbated by stress and worry. For one school year he was principal of an academy in Prattville, Alabama, but it closed in 1868 in the face of economic depression.
To read more about this poet, please visit:  http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-533

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Your an Original!

“Wanting to be someone else
is a waste of who you are.”

~Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana. 
To read more, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

All good things...


"Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more

talk less, say more; hate less, love more; 

and all good things are yours.

~Swedish proverb

Monday, March 12, 2012

Leadership


To Lead people is like listening to a symphony... 

You hear the parts together... 

but also separately, 

at the same time.  

~ Doug Firebaugh

Friday, March 9, 2012

Arrive at your destiny!

"You are the driver in your life.  
Make the right turns, 
and you'll end up 
at your desired destiny". 



~Kim Franklin-Magana 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Sparks of Possibility!


“Make the most of yourself 
by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility 
into flames of achievement.” 
~Golda Meir
Golda Meir (Hebrewגּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר‎‎ [ɡolˈda] or [ˈɡolda] [meˈʔiʁ];[1] earlier Golda Meyerson, born Golda Mabovich (Голда Мабович); May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969,[2] after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.[3] Former prime minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people."[4]
In 1974, after the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War, Meir resigned as prime minister. She died in 1978.
To read more about her and view pictures, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir



Monday, March 5, 2012

Cloudy vs. Sunny

“A cloudy day 
is 
no match 
for a 
sunny 
disposition.”


~William Arthur Ward

William Arthur Ward (1921–1994), author of Fountains of Faith, is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.  To learn more, please visit:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Ward


Saturday, March 3, 2012

A walk in my garden...

If I had a flower
for every time I thought of you, 
I could walk in my garden
forever." 

~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TennysonFRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much ofQueen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language.  TO READ MORE, PLEASE VISIT:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson