Successful day, Swimmers, Bayonets

Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: "I
am thankful for __________. Today I accomplished _________."
~ Advice

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
~ Steven Wright

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
~ Boris Yeltsin

Family, Humor, Intellect

Call your family often.
~ Advice

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
~ Albert Einstein

Civilization, and Misery Loves Company

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
~ Advice

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
~ Will Durant

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
~ Henry David Thoreau

UPDATE:

Leadership, Misunderstandings

The best is yet to come.
~ Advice

He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
~ Anonymous
[I disagree. It's not followers who define leadership. It's principles. – K]

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
~ William James

envy, patriotism, silence

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

~ Advice

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

~ Lin Yutang

Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) U.S. 16th President

the future, and patriotism vs. rights

Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

~ Advice

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

~ Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) English novelist - science fiction writer best known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edge sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.

~ Julius Caesar

freedom and good books

Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will stay in touch.

~ Advice

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

~ Noam Chomsky (1928-) U.S. author

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

~ Ernest Hemingway

change, and interrupting

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
~ Advice

With a stop light, green means "go" and yellow means "slow down". With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means "go", green means "whoa, slow down" and red means "where the heck did you get that banana?"
~ Mitch Hedberg

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

The Healer, catchphrase, and environmental attitude

GOD heals everything, not necessarily the way you would like & there may be scars.
~ Advice

This book fills a much-needed gap.
~ Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

If you are going through hell, keep going.
~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

thinking of you, coffee, and theory vs reality

What other people think of you is none of your business.
~ Advice

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
~ Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Forgiveness, the future, rules for writing

Forgive everyone for everything.
~ Advice

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

Perpective, Brotherhood

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
~ Advice

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
~ Jane Wyman

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there."
~ Jef Mallett

Happiness, Accomplishments and Wonder

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
~ Advice

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't know what you can't do.
~ Garfield (after seeing Odie sitting on a tree branch.)

One must create a state of mind that craves knowledge, interest and wonder. You can teach only by creating an urge to know.
~ Victor Weisskopf, The Privilege of Being a Physicist

No comparisons

Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
~ Advice

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato

Dwell in possibility.
~ Emily Dickinson

The past, and hope in failure

Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
~ Advice

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
~ Franz Kafka

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~ John Keats

Arguments, Silver Lining, Good Intentions

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
~ Advice

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~ Maurice Setter

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
~ Peter Drucker

Seriously, folks - Freedom, and Rhythm

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
~ Advice

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
~ Elvis Presley

Avoiding Lazy Habits

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
~ Advice

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~ Albert Einstein

life

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
~Advice

We are wiser than we know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Laughter, sorrow, knowledge

Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
~Advice

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
~ Lord Byron

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
~ George Bernard Shaw