I have a friend who posts a wonderful "Quote of the Day" on another site. I have asked her to come here to post her marvelous quotes each day. Watch this space for sheer enlightenment!
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"You've got to walk that lonesome valley, You've got to cross it for yourself, Ain't nobody else can cross it for you, You've got to cross it for yourself..."
-- American folk song, ? Negro spiritual ? (I don't have more precise identification right at hand)
Long overdue....thanks for coming aboard Cam! And you have been excused from posting for the past few days. If I could be away visiting friends, so could you! (BTW...nice seeing you again! )
Posts: 1412 | Location: Buffalo, NY, United States
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth--and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up--that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Our poor power with words limits us in attempting to express the depth and magnitude of our feelings of Gratitude toward you and Melody for having had the grace and generosity to share this with us today.
Thank you.
quote: Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Posts: 6708 | Location: Kehena Beach, Hawaii, U.S.A.
I'm glad you are enjoying the quotes. I love finding treasures along life's highway and then following up with the gift of being allowed to send them on their way for others to discover.
Stay safe, we are officially over hump day and on the down hill slope to the W E E K E N D. Time to play.
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and , therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came. President John F. Kennedy
"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." --Andre Malraux
quote:It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth--and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up--that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Boy, did those words ring true this weekend in Chicago. Perhaps some of you heard about the porch collapse in Chicago, snuffing out 13 young adult lives. On a more personal note, my daughter was at that party, narrowly escaping injury. It was a stark reminder of the fragility of life.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap afte leap in the dark.
"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good." -- Brian Tracy
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward. Zig Ziglar
quote:Originally posted by Cam: In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose
In the dark, all cats are grey. - Benjamin Franklin, June 25, 1745, advising a young man that "in your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones."
The quoted item is part of the fifth of his reasons. The last is, "8th & lastly. They are so grateful!!!"
quote:Originally posted by tinman: A guy once told me that he preferred older women because "they can't swell, they won't tell, and they appreciate it like hell".
Scroll about halfway down the Uppity Blues Women site, listen to the 1-minute clip of Middle Age Blues Boogie, and you can hear a variant of that saying.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
"Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'" NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw. -Robert Francis Kennedy
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." -Leo Buscaglia
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizen in a Republic", April 23, 1910
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. Garrison Keillor
