"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919
Note: A well known often quoted saying, albeit one that is so powerful Rachael and Andrew as you have heard me say so many times, let your actions speak for you not your words

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
Max Steingart

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
Gandhi
Source: Amulet worn by my friend Lori Sherrill

Thought For The Day

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
- Spurgeon

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Thought For The Day

"Above all, be the hero/heroine of your life, not the victim."

—Nora Ephron

 

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Thought for Today

Look to this day,
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence;
the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day,
such is the salutation of the dawn.

The Sufi (1200 B.C.)

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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet 

 

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton  1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet 

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Thought For The Day

DO THE NEXT THING

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.
The time to repair your roof is when the sun is shining.
So, do things before they need to be done.

Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Position yourself ahead of time in the best place for you.

You'll gain the advantage in any situation through the medium of time.
When you think ahead of any approaching action
you'll always have the advantage.
You'll be the winner.

When you do what is necessary,
all the odds are in your favor.

Max Steingart

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

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"I think after loss, life requires an act of reclaiming."

Keanu Reeves

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"Well begun is half done."

~ Aristotle (384-322 BC)

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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

-- Denis Waitley

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If I'm anxious for tomorrow
I will surely miss this day
As I worry 'bout the future
Then my Now just slips away
Quite unnoticed, yet another
Precious moment left behind –
To be sketched upon a "should-have" list
Called guilt - found in my mind
Let me recognize this second
As the only time alive
Let me use it very wisely
Not to suffer, but to thrive
Let me forgive for as I do
The more I come to see
That any judgment in my mind
Is one I see in me
Excerpt from Anxious by Michelle Hummel 2007
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
- -- Robert Browning

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
George MacDonald

"I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen."
Victoria Gray

The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
- Socrates, quoted in Cicero, 44 BC.

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"

It is the Vague and Elusive.
"Meet it and you will not see its head.
Follow it and you will not see its back.
Lao Tzuo

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.  It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.  ~Adam Smith
God give me work, till my life shall end
And life, till my work is done.
~Epitaph of Winifred Holtby
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold.  But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.  ~Douglas Pagels,
These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You

"Princess Academy" - Shannon Hale
Note: As Presented by Laura Paloumpis
Steps to Be A Princess
1) Learn to Walk with a book on your head.
2) Put on your Favorite Dress
3) READ BOOKS AFTER EVERYONE HAS GONE TO BED
4) Memorize the rules
5) Break the Rules
6) Save your friend from Danger
7) Most importantly, be a girl