Wise men...

The wise man is glad to be instructed. 

~Proverbs 10:8  TLB

Make the most of what you have!

Arrange  

  whatever pieces 

come your way. 
~Virginia Woolf

Small attempts!

I know that small attempts repeated, 
will complete any undertaking. 
                

~Og Mandino

Writing...

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
~Anais Nin



Imagination...

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

~Albert Einstein

Is it possible?

Is it possible that I am so busy doing

that I no longer have time to enjoy being?

~Wilson



Age...

We are always 
the same age inside.

~Gertrude Stein

Begin Life Everyday!

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was " Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone".
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS INTERESTING WOMAN, PLEASE VISIT:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox

Delicate Strength...

True strength 
is delicate.

~Louise Nevelson 

Strength and Gentleness

Nothing is so strong as gentleness,

nothing so gentle as real strength.

~St. Francis de Sales

Creativity is a gift your share with others!

There is a fountain of youth: 

It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life…

~Sophia Loren

Virtue...

Virtue, 

like art, 

constantly deals with what is hard to do, 

and the harder the task the better the success.

~Aristotle

An exerpt from Wikipedia:
Virtue is a behavior showing a high moral standard and is a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards. Virtues can be placed into a broader context of values. Each individual has a core of underlying values that contribute to his or her system of beliefs, ideas and/or opinions (see value in semiotics). Integrity in the application of a value ensures its continuity and this continuity separates a value from beliefs, opinion and ideas. In this context, a value (e.g., Truth or Equality or Creed) is the core from which we operate or react. Societies have values that are shared among many of the participants in that culture. An individual's values typically are largely, but not entirely, in agreement with his or her culture's values.
Individual virtues can be grouped into one of four categories of values:

• Ethics (virtue - vice, good - evil, moral - immoral - amoral, right - wrong)
• Aesthetics (unbalanced, pleasing)
• Doctrinal (political, ideological, religious or social beliefs and values)
• Innate/inborn

Knowledge vs. Wisdom

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

~Sandra Carey

"To acquire knowledge, 
one must study; 
but to acquire wisdom, 
one must observe."
~ Marilyn vos Savant

"Common sense in an uncommon degree, 
is what the world calls wisdom."
~ Samuel Coleridge

Animals and Pets

“Animals are such agreeable friends—

they ask no questions, they pass no 

criticisms.”

~ George Eliot

Laughter!

Laughter

 is an instant vacation. 
 ~Milton Berle

Possibilities...

Things

 are only impossible

 until they're not. 

~Jean-Luc Picard

JUST DO IT!

 "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done,

it was done."

                                            ~Helen Keller                                                 

Reflection

We need time to dream,                   

time to remember,

and time to reach the infinite. 

Time to be.

                               ~Gladys Taber                                            

Courtesy

The courtesies of a small and trivial character

are the ones which strike deepest

to the grateful and appreciating heart.

~Henry Clay

The Best of All Things...

Water is the best of all things.

PINDAR (C. 522-C. 438 B.C.), Olympian Odes

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

ISAAC ASIMOV, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

Eternal Truths...

We live in the present,

we dream in the future,

but we learn eternal truths

from the past.

~Unknown

Words...

Kind words 
can be short and easy to speak,

but their echoes are truly endless.

~Mother Teresa

Experience

“A new broom sweeps clean,

but the old broom knows the corners.”

~Irish Proverb

Happiness...

Happiness held is the seed;

happiness shared is the flower. 

~John Harrigan

Happiness and Success...

Success is getting what you want.

Happiness is liking what you get.

~H. Jackson Brown, 
A Father's Book of Wisdom 



New Dreams and Goals!

“You are never too old 

to set another goal 

or to dream a new dream.”

~C.S. LEWIS

FORGIVENESS

It is surely better to pardon too much

than to condemn too much.

~George Eliot

Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.  (From an exerpt in Wikipedia --  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot).

Home

Home's not merely roof and room -

It needs something to endear it;

Home is where the heart can bloom,

Where there's some kind lip to cheer it!

~Charles Swain


Charles Swain, "the Manchester Poet," was born in Manchester and educated at a school run by the Unitarian minister William Johns. At the age of fifteen he was employed as a clerk in a dye-house. After 1830 he was employed by an engraving and lithography firm in Manchester. Throughout his long life he devoted himself to literary pursuits, contributing to the Manchester Iris, a literary magazine, and publishing in many of the annuals. Swain was awarded a civil list pension in 1856.
Find out more here:  http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?&method=GET&recordid=33506

The Gift of Humor

Humor is not a trick, not jokes.

Humor is a presence in the world -

like grace - and shines on everybody.

~Garrison Keillor

What have you laughed about today? 

 Hopefully, many different things! 

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Everyday is Earth Day!

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. 
We are all crew.
-Marshall McLuhan
Communications
theorist,
educator,
philosopher