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

Apologies...

...are the awareness of mistakes, 
the ability to feel the effects of your mistakes on others, 
and the desire to right a wrong.  
~Kim Franklin-Magana

An apology is the superglue of life. 

It can repair just about anything.

~Lynn Johnston

Johnston had a close friendship with Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts. She wrote the introduction to The Complete Peanuts: 1981-1982.

To read more about this comic strip artist and author, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Johnston

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES - One's Utmost Power!

What lies behind us

and what lies before us

are tiny matters

compared to what lies

within us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

US essayist & poet (1803-1882)

Love

To love and be loved

is to feel the sun

from both sides.

~David Viscott, M.D.

Defeat is Temporary!

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.

Giving up is what makes it permanent.

~Marilyn Vos Savant

Never Ever Give Up!

Our Dangerous World!

The world is a dangerous place, 

not because of those who do evil, 

but because of those who look on 
and do nothing.

~Albert Einstein

Teen girl gets plastic surgery 

to stop being bullied:

Fifteen-year-old Renata said she wanted to get plastic surgery so she can stop being teased about her nose. Her decision, supported by a nonprofit organization, is spurring discussion about beauty and bullying.

http://www.today.com/video/today/53971923?from=en-us_msnhp#53971923

HELP Stamp Out Bullying simply by informing others about what you have learned.

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Providence

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, a chance to draw back always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless dreams and splendid plans. That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too."

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PROVIDENCE

"Divine guidance or care.

God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding 
human destiny."

Poet, Novelist, and Scientist

"Each indecision brings it's own delays 
and days are lost lamenting over lost days...
What you can do or think you can do, begin it. 
 For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it"

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749-1832, Poet, Novelist, and Scientist