“Education is not the filling of a pail
but the lighting of a fire of learning.”
William Butler Yeats
Monthly Archives: July 2011
If You Have the Time
“Anywhere is walking distance,
if you have the time.”
Steven Wright
Courage
“Courage can be a form of tenaciousness,
a refusal to quit because you’re tired, hurt,
humiliated or emotionally broken.
Courage is the ability to face
what life throws in your path on a daily basis.”
Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons,
The Courage Companion
Three Things
“Remember three things and save yourself
lots of unneeded heartache:
You’re not God. This ain’t heaven.
Don’t act like a jerk.”
James Martin, “12 Things I Wish I Knew at 25″
Free Yourself
“It’s passion, not pedigree, that can and will win in the end.
Free yourself from comparison.
Just because someone has fancy sneakers
doesn’t mean they can run faster.”
Jon Bon Jovi
The Fuel of Success
“Education is important but motivation is more important.
Talent counts but motivation counts more.
Motivation is the power that creates action;
it is the fuel of success.”
Tamara Lowe
Happier Day
“Just the knowledge that a good book
is awaiting one at the end of a long day
makes that day happier.”
Kathleen Norris
Not Condoning
“Forgiveness is not condoning.
Nor is it even repairing what has been broken,
though often that is possible.
Forgiveness isn’t really about the other person.
Forgiveness is deciding that you need
to make peace with a personal situation.
You forgive so you can get on with your life.”
R. Scott Colglazier
Reason, Season, Life
“There are friends for a reason,
friends for a season,
and friends for life.”
Unknown
Be Done With It
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“Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Emerson
Wrong
“For every difficult problem,
there is a solution that is
simple, neat, and wrong.”
H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956
“The Sage of Baltimore”
