"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouths.
from an anonymous little boy named Billy- age 4

"Great leaders are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."
- Napoleon

Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power
*Tao Te Ching

There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends, I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all.
~John Lennon~

"Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure"
- Lou Holtz

"Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?"
--Joni Mitchell

Although we are individuals, none of us are isolated and or totally alone as to the impact or our actions or lack of actions. Each of us belongs to and is part of a whole which can include family, friends and or associates. In some far eastern cultures that "whole" even extends to one's ancestors. Thus what actions we take, or actions we do not take, are a reflection upon and have an impact on our family friends and associates. While growing up my parents drove into my brother sister and me, " before doing something ask yourself would your parents be proud if they knew you did what you are about to do or not do." Simply put then, we must each do the right thing, that is all there is to it. It is not ever gray as to what that is. It is always black or white,( merely right or wrong). fsm

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." -- Winston Churchill

"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
(George Santayana)

Thought For The Day - Appropriate & Interesting for this time

THOMAS JEFFERSON's PROPOSAL FOR THE DESIGN OF THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES FEATURED THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT: The parting of the sea, with Pharaoh's chariots in pursuit and the motto "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Jefferson considered Americans as the modern day Hebrews fleeing State controlled religion of 1600s England, and America as the modern day Promised Land. Just like many other Founding Fathers, Jefferson followed John Lock's appreciation of the Old Testament, as a key legal guideline for democratic societies. 

Yoram Ettinger

http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

The Ten Commandments
I am the Lord your God, Who has taken you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery"
"You shall have no other gods but me"
"You shall not take the name of your Lord in vain"
"You shall remember and keep the Sabbath day holy"
"Honor your father and mother"
"You shall not murder"
"You shall not commit adultery"
"You shall not steal"
"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor"
"You shall not covet your neighbor's goods. You shall not covet your neighbour's house. You shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his bull, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's."

"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships--the ones that last--
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more
than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...suddenly
the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
- Dana Scully (The X-Files}

''Ain't no man can avoid been born average, but there ain't no man got to be common."
Satchel Paige
Legendary black baseball great Joe DiMaggio called Satchel Paige "the best and fastest pitcher I've ever faced".

The following Poem by is by e.e.cummings
Carmen Diaz' character recited it in the movie
"In Her Shoes", It waslovingly read last night by Diane Cantor to her husband Neil at his 75th birthday celebration...................
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart
ee.cummings

Your Vision will become CLEAR only when you look into your HEART
He who looks outside DREAMS
He who looks inside AWAKENS
-Carl Jung

If--
If you can keep your head when all about you 
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust youself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--not lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son
Rudyard Kipling

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the property of the few.
Johanna Wolfing On Goethe

Kaballah teaches not to expect the impossible but to not accept anything less than our striving to do all thats possible
Sourced by my Uncle Harvey Kuperman

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.
Carl Sagan

"Each moment is but a moment on the Trail of All Nows."
The Horse Whisperer