Poise, Mentorship, Parenting

It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of
Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out
of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers,
never a slave of the clock. ~ J.B. Phillips

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the
results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same
results. ~ Anthony Robbins

To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves,
becoming forever new and improved. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

Monday quotes: Busyness, Determination, Habitat

Busyness chokes deep thinking. ~ Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry. ~ Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.- Edward de Bono

No Monday quotes

Money, Moment, Relations

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.
~ Kanye West

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
~ Jacques Delille

Peace, Truth, Age

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace
unless he has his freedom.
~ Malcolm X

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

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
~ Russell Baker

Innovate, Marriage, Security

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
~ Steve Jobs

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with
the same person.
~ Mignon McLaughlin

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
~ Willa Cather

Age, Knowing, Bridges

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except
wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the
grapes were good in the first place. ~ Abigail Van Buren

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. ~ Quentin Crisp

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which
to burn. ~ David Russell

Value Yourself, Enemy, Self

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted
down for the benefit of the tallow trade. ~ George Eliot

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he
uses to frighten you. ~ Eric Hoffer

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even
can be. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Truth, Past, Money

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
~ Robertson Davies

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't
happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just
words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the
trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
~ Chuck Palahniuk

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.
~ Mike Tatum

belief, American, wonder

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact
that they believe in something, use that something to support their
own existence. ~ Frank Zappa

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which
seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ~ A. E. Housman

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience.
And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning,
science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable
one, of being true. ~ Carl Sagan

Storms, Assumptions, Vision

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
~ Louisa May Alcott

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
~ Henry Winkler

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly,
naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't.
You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a
mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
~ Kathleen Norris

American, humor, greed

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
~ A. E. Housman

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
~ Robertson Davies

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.
~ Mike Tatum

assumptions, vision, belief

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
~ Henry Winkler

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
~ Kathleen Norris

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
~ Frank Zappa

Imperfection, Work, Storms

Imperfection is God's playground

~ Unknown

 

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

 

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Failures, Unconditional

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.

~ Michael Patrick King

 

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

~ C. S. Lewis

 

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

~ Madonna

Kisses, Vices, Conference

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
~ Bob Hope

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do
nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
~ Fred Allen

Know your limitations, Drive, Invention

Never eat more than you can lift.

~ Miss Piggy

 

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

~ Bette Davis

 

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

~ Agatha Christie

Patience, Parents, Humor

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

 

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

~ Ogden Nash

 

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

~ Larry Gelbart

Love, Skiing, Obstacles

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most
difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the
work for which all other work is but preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
~ Dave Barry

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~ Frank A. Clark

Walls, Refresh, Discreet

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who
cares enough to break them down.
~ Banana Yoshimoto

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their
own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will
drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
~ John Muir

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be
mysterious about any.
~ Arthur Wellesley