The wise man is glad to be instructed.
~Proverbs 10:8 TLB
Your place to come and perhaps, experience a new thought and achieve a higher understanding of others and their personal experiences in life. Welcome to all who visit! Your comments and input are welcome and encouraged.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Is it possible?
Is it possible that I am so busy doing
that I no longer have time to enjoy being?
~Wilson
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
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".
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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
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Strength and Gentleness
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
nothing so gentle as real strength.
~St. Francis de Sales
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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
Monday, May 16, 2011
Virtue...
Virtue,
like art,
constantly deals with what is hard to do,
and the harder the task the better the success.
~Aristotle
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:
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living;
the other helps you make a life.
One helps you make a living;
the other helps you make a life.
~Sandra Carey
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
is what the world calls wisdom."
~ Samuel Coleridge
Friday, May 13, 2011
Animals and Pets
“Animals are such agreeable friends—
they ask no questions, they pass no
criticisms.”
they ask no questions, they pass no
criticisms.”
~ George Eliot
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Reflection
We need time to dream,
time to remember,
and time to reach the infinite.
Time to be.
~Gladys Taber
Friday, May 6, 2011
Courtesy
The courtesies of a small and trivial character
are the ones which strike deepest
to the grateful and appreciating heart.
~Henry Clay
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Eternal Truths...
We live in the present,
we dream in the future,
but we learn eternal truths
from the past.
~Unknown
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Words...
Kind words
can be short and easy to speak,
can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
~Mother Teresa