There are 5 things in life you cannot recover:
A stone...after it's thrown.
A word...after it is said.
An occasion...after it's missed.
The time...after it's gone.
A person...after they die.
Life is short.
Break the rules.
Forgive quickly.
Kiss slowly.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably.
And never regret anything that made you smile.
Enjoy Life today...right now...this very moment!
Angie Spaur Deardorff
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
-Lao Tzu
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."- Franklin D. Roosevelt
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. Harry S. Truman
Look at today, for it is life. Yesterday is a dream and tomorrow is a vision, but today makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow hope!
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and good with ketchup!
At Heathrow Airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight carrying a compass, a protractor and a graphing calculator.
He is believed to be a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement.
He is charged with bearing weapons of math instruction
(copied from Rick Arrowood and Mike Fox)
I was RAISED, I didn't just grow up.
I was taught to speak when I enter a room, say Please & Thank you, to have Respect for my elders, lend a helping hand to those in need, hold the door for the person behind me, say Excuse me when it's needed, & to Love people for who they are, not for what you can get from them! I was also taught to treat people the way I want to be treated! If you were raised this way too.
"You can observe a lot, just by watching"
- Yogi Berra
"If you aim for great and fail, then you're not good; if you aim for perfection and fail, you can still be great"
- Huston Street
There are eight essential things you need in life: Strength, Courage, Wisdom, Peace, Calm, Joy and Love. Strength to get up every morning, Courage to face the challenges thrown our way, Wisdom to realize that it's not always in our control, Peace within and with those around us, Calm to have a clear mind, Joy to see the good in life and most importantly of all Love - love for those we know closely, those we know at a distance, and those we're yet to meet.
From a Friend Andy Arndt
"It's only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything." There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore...
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past,
there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
You have a strong mind if you can read.
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Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Chief Seattle, 1854
When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
-Cree Prophecy
Nothing lasts forever, so live it up, breath it out, laugh it off, take chances, & never have regrets, because at one point, everything you did was exactly what you wanted.
- Mindy Crabtree
If you had bought $1000 of shares in Delta one year ago, you would have $49 today!
If you had bought $1000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33 today.
If you had bought $1000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have $0 today.
But, if you had bought $1000 worth of beer one year ago, drank it all, then turned in your cans for a recycling refund, you would have $214!
Based on the above, the best plan is to drink heavily and recycle!
It is called the 401-Keg!
Success
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Focus Set your sights on your potential, not your problems. You will be amazed at what you see.
Excellence There's no ceiling in life. You can soar as high as you're willing to try.
Change Change isn't scary - it's growth. And growth is the essence of life.
Confidence Believe in yourself and you"ll always be on solid ground, no matter where you are.
Determination
Even the tallest mountain is conquered one step at a time.
Reflection
If you're searching for the key to success, look inside yourself.
Perseverance
Barely hanging on and ahead by a mile both mean that you're in the game.
Dedication Always give your ideas time to take hold. Keep your dreams alive.
Opportunity
If you want to stand out from the crow, make your own opportunities.
Teamwork
Coming together is beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Destiny
You decide your own direction, so make your journey one you'd want to read about.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." -Mother Teresa
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
~Don Marquis
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~Mary Pickford
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
~Corrie ten Boom
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
~Wayne Dyer
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Richard M. DeVos
“Defeat may test you. It need not stop you. At first if you don't succeed,try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Greatest mistake is giving up.”
"Misc"
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
Anonymous
If you treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be, and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrould
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worth while achievement.
Henry Ford
Everything in your ife is there
as a vehicle for your transformation.
Use it!
Ram Dass
The only two ranks that matter are white belt and black belt. White belt represents courage [the courage to risk failure] and black belt represents persistence and follow through. .. The world is full of great starters, but it is the ability to follow through to the end that separates the best of us from the rest of us.
John Graden
See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.
Guy Finley
Instructions for life sent to me by one of the Black Belts
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R's.
Respect for self,
Respect for others and
Resonsiblity for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open you arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for eachother exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
Stedman Graham
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
Neale Donald Walsch
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
Confidence is when you're sure you can succeed. Arrogance is when you put someone down to do it.
The 7 Obstacles to overcome: ignorance, impatience, confusion, procrastination, anger, fear, and doubt.
Today, let your heart dance. You will find no shortage of dance partners, as your feet join in. And your eyes. And your smile. And every part of your body and your feelings. Let your heart dance all day long.
Unknown
There are only two options regarding commitment;
you're either in or you're out.
There's no such thing as life in-between.
Pat Riley
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Are you bored with life?
Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking;
nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
William Arthur Ward
The IRS sent my Tax Return back! AGAIN!! I guess it was because of my response to the question: "List all dependents." I replied -"12 million illegal immigrants, 3 million crack heads, 42 million unemployable people on food stamps, 2 million people in over 243 prisons, Half of Mexico, and 535 fools in the U.S. House and Senate." Apparently, this was NOT an acceptable answer
Quotes:
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Sir Winston Churchill
Two Choices
What would you do? You make the choice. Don't look for a punch line,
there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: 'When not interfered with by
outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection.
Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.
Where is the natural order of things in my son?'
The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. 'I believe that when a child like Shay, phy sically and mentally handicapped comes into the world , an opportunity to realize tru e human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.'
Then he told the following story:
Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and
some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.
Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not
expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the nin th inning.'
Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on
a team shirt . His Father watched with a sm all tear in his eye and warmth in his heart The boys saw the father's joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat.
Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn 't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.
The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would ha ve been the end of the game.
Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first! Run to first!' Never in his life had Shay ever ru n that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!' Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball ... the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ah ead of him circled the bases toward home.
All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay'
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the d irection of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third! Shay, run to third!'
As Shay rounded third, the b oys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!' Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team.
'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his
face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'.
Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!
AND N OW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.
If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the 'appropriate' ones to receive this type of message. Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the 'natural order of things.' So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?
A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them.
You now have two choices:
1. Delete
2. Forward
This message was sent to me by a friend, I hope you will copy and paste this into your next email.
This is how we as people will make a huge difference in lives.
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