LiStEn, LoVe, LaUgH, LiVe, GiVe & HeLp!…

12/28/2008

“Look to this day,for yesterday is already a dream…
And tomorrow is a vision…
But today lived,
makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow
a vision of hope.
Look well to
this day.”

MOTIVATIONAL THOUGHTS

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
-- Quincy Jones

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
-Andre Gide

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
-William Arthur Ward

Happiness is not getting what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.
-Author Unknown

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-Mark Twain

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
-St. Clement of Alexandra

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
-Voltaire

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
-Theodore Roosevelt

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
-Kahil Gibran

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
-Winston Churchill

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those, which fail.
-Napoleon Hill

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
--James A. Baldwin

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Kahlil Gibran~

There go the people.
I must follow them for I am their leader.
-Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
-Hypocrites

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
-Vince Lombardi

WORD OF THE WEEK

ramble \RAM-buhl\, verb, noun:
1. to wander about

noun:
1. a walk for pleasure without predetermined destination

verb:
1. to talk or write about one thing and then another without useful connection

2008 DECEMBER 2008

1 AIDS Awareness Day
21 First Day of Winter
22 Hanukkah
25 Christmas Day
26 Kwanzaa & Boxing Day (Can.)
31 New Year’s Eve