Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope" Helen Keller

"When you're hot keep shooting, when you're not keep shooting 'till you get hot."
Bernie Stein about basketball
Note: Taught to me by Doug Cohn

if you so choose…..
fsm 25 May, 2007

if you so choose
to remember me
please not with a tear…..

rather
reflect upon
what ‘s been said and done
for those encountered
those held dear..

a daughter a son.
know well
the place to seek
its secret revealed
since taught awareness
of their heart’s beat

a friend…. a comrade
in arms or not
can recall
the words
the acts
the matter of facts…..

if you so choose
to remember me
please not with a tear…..

laugh;
love;
dance;
sing;
create;
seek resonance with life;
facilitate

it is now that matters
not then
not to be

if you so choose
so remember me

"Success in these times and going forward means that the margin for error may have been reduced to an infinitesimal amount."
F. Sanford Mahr

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer,never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn
Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The universe doesn't give us an engraved invitation to participate in life. And just showing up to the party doesn't guarantee us a good time. The universe responds to our actions.
We get out of it what we put into it.
Sourced by my friend Lori Antoniou Sherrill

" In the long run, men hit only what they aim at."
Henry David Thoreau

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
Intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
(Charles Darwin)
Note: Sent by NJC

For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win.
Og Mandino

"The larger the island of your knowledge the greater the shoreline of your ignorance
Jim Kurzdorfer
Note: Sourced through Kenneth H. Kaufman

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Henry Huxley

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all
O.W. Holmes
If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine
Kipling

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences
Robert G. Ingersoll

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean
politics won't take an interest in you.
...........Pericles (430 B.C.)

Note: From Donna Dickinson Schneider

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
Theodore Roosevelt

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. "
Sockman, Ralph W
Note: Originally told to me by Ken Kaufman in another form
The greater the area of the Island of your knowledge the longer the shoreline of your ignorance

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of
life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that
goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
(Arnold Toynbee)
Note: Sourced by NJC

"Listening is a magnetic thing, a creative force. You can see that the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays."
-- Brenda Ueland

I traveled the earth to find the man within the shadows, but instead I found the shadows within the man."
"You must cast off the man, but retain the shadows, for a shadowless man is simply a man, but a manless shadow is something else entirely."
BRUCE WAYNE
"I shall become the shadowless shadow, the manless man
From The Movie Batman Begins

"We have slain  a large dragon, and we now live in a jungle filled with a variety of poisonous snakes. And in many ways, the dragon was easier to keep track of."
By former CIA director James Woodley regarding post Cold war life
Note: This TFTD was sent in by Blake Toll my son's friend and now mine as well

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential…"— Soren Kierkegaard
Note: Sent by NJC

I cannot think that the world as we see it is the result of chance; and yet I cannot look at each separate thing as the result of Design... I am, and shall ever remain, in a hopeless muddle.

(Charles Darwin; Letter to Asa Grey