"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and..... what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same.....only LOVE
from The Movie Don Juan DeMarco

"Strive for Perfection. Settle for Excellence
Don Shula former coach Miami Dolphins
Note: Shared by Jimmy DeMesa

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical, skeptical, doubting and convince ourselves of all the reasons why not. Well, that's nonsense. One should jump off cliffs to experience life's treasures and build your wings on the way
Ray Bradbury

"Gratitude is wealth. Complaint is poverty."
-Doris Day,
How rich will you choose to be today?
njc

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels. -
Paul Anka; Frank Sinatra; Elvis Presley, My Way

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" 
George Bernard Shaw

Inside the soul of a lover lies the soul of those he/she loves.....
Inside the heart of a romantic lies the echoes of yearnings of those that long...
Inside the eye of the seer lies the image of the beauty that abounds.....
Inside the intonation of the voice of he/she who speaks lies sounds that live between the silences...
Inside the thoughts of the dreamer lies the painting of the future there to be had...
Inside the imagery of the artist/photgrapher lies the interpretation of his/her passion...
Inside the tonality of the musicmaker lies the intricate formula of cause and effect for most to emote...
Inside the being in each moment, lies all that there is and is meant to be...
Inside each of us lies all which is outside each of us....
Inside the soul of a lover lies the soul of those he/she loves.....
fsm
a Friday night in July 2006

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the
smartest of all.
- Socrates

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself
Rabbi Abraham Heschel

"The best indices to a person's character are how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back
Abigail Van Buren

The difference between those who merely wish and those who actually arrive is always action. Act on it, with persistence, with commitment, with positive purpose, and it will be.

-- Ralph Marston

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men
with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a
proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derilicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race." 
- Calvin Coolidge

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.
Sent from- "Sunny" - Donna "Dickinson" Schneider's - daughter
Donna was thecatalyst of "Thought For The Day" originally many years ago