The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming

"The power of imagination makes us infinite"
John Muir

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they are always there.
Vincent Peale

"Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look at their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses."
Zig Ziglar

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed as a result of her investigations of Irish organized crime

"Not all who wander are lost."
J.R.R. Tolkien

What Will Matter


Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.


There will be no more sunrises, no minutes hours or days.


All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten,

will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.


It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.


Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.


So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.


The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.


It won’t matter where you came from, or what side of the tracks you lived,

at the end.


It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.


Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.


So what will matter?

How will the value of your days be measured?


What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got,


What will matter is not your success, but your significance.


What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.


What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice

that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.


What will matter is not your competence, but your character.


What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will

feel a lasting loss when you’re gone.


What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you.


What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.


Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident.

It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

Choose to live a life that matters


Author Michael Josephson

Note: Sourced By NJC

VISION IS THE ART OF SEEING INVISIBLE THINGS
You don't need an explanation for everything.
Recognize that there are such things as miracles,
events for which there are no explanations.
Later, knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

The fact that you can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,
share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,
smile at someone and receive a smile in return are common miracles.

Your duty to yourself is to believe
that for which you have sufficient evidence,
and to suspend your judgment when you have not.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Don't believe in miracles, depend on them.
Max Steingart

Plant a thought, reap an act
Plant an act reap a habit.
Plant a habit reap a character.
Plant a character reap a destiny.
Confucius

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
Vernon Law
Note: Sent from Robert Clay

"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes"
Chinese Proverb

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
Benjamin Franklin

Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character.Watch your character for it will become your destiny."
Frank Outlaw

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
Mohammed Ali

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
 William Morrow

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

"True generosity is not the giving of things, rather it is the giving of self."
fsm 2007

"…happiness gives us the energy which is the basis for health."
Henri Amiel, Swiss philosopher and writer

She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
~ by Byron

"A wise man spends time improving his weakness, a foolish man spends time only improving his skills." Submitted by Dr Alex Chandler

"It is better for a person to give more (gifts to the poor) than to expand his meal.......
For there is no greater joy than to gladden the heart of the poor....… " Rambam
Note: Sent in the memory of Allen Lewis from Jerusalem, just recently and sadly passed, who sourced this and sent it in as a prospective TFTD

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
William Ralph Inge

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
 Thomas Edison

"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination." 

John Schaar