Todays Thought

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  • NPat
    NPat Member Posts: 485
    edited December 2004
    This may have been posted before... but it is one of my favorites and is a good reminder for the New Year.

    BETWEEN YOU AND GOD

    People are often unreasonable,
    irrational, and self-centered;
    Forgive them anyway.

    If you are kind, people may accuse
    you of selfish,ulterior motives;
    Be kind anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win some
    unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies;
    Succeed anyway.

    If you are honest and sincere,
    people may deceive you;
    Be honest and sincere anyway.

    What you spend years creating
    others could destroy overnight;
    Create anyway.

    If you find serenity and happiness,
    some may be jealous;
    Be happy anyway.

    The good you do today
    will often be forgotten;
    Do good anyway.

    Give the best you have
    and it may never be enough;
    Give your best anyway.

    In the final analysis,
    it is between you and God;
    I was never between you and them anyway.

    Mother Teresa

    Have a Blessed New Year!!!

    Pat
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005

    Thanks Pat I love that....Happy New Year....xoxo,Patti

  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    "This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good."

    Author Unknown

    Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

    Richard Bach
    xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    Thanks Pat for sharing that lovely poem.

    ***

    When Stephen King was asked why he's quitting writing he replied,"I've killed enough of the world's trees."
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    "Trouble,like first love,teach many lessons."...Charlie Chan

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    "Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself."

    — Katherine Sharp

    "The spiritual journey is one of continually falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, looking sheepishly at God, and taking another step."

    — Aurobindo
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    "Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."...Horace

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    "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...Confucius

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    "Remember: Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."...Alexander The Great

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited January 2005
    I Am....
    only one but still I am one.
    I cannot do everything, but still
    I can do something. I will not refuse
    to do something I can do..
    --Helen Keller--
  • kats
    kats Member Posts: 509
    edited January 2005
    A friend sent this to me this morning...

    I asked God for water,
    He gave me an ocean.

    I asked God for a flower,
    He gave me a garden.

    I asked God for a friend,
    He gave me all of YOU...

    If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

    In Happy moments, praise God.
    In Difficult moments, seek God.
    In Quiet moments, worship God.
    In Painful moments, trust God.
    Every moment, thank God.
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005

    Kats thank you for sharing with us...It was beautiful...Please join us again..Always looking for new inspiration ....xoxo,Patti

  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

    — Victor Hugo
    xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    "At my back I often hear time's winged chariot changing gear."...Eric Linklater

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    "I wasted time,and now doth time waste me."...William Shakespeare

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    "I have noticied that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."...E.V. Lucas

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Everything that happens is either a blessing which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing. - Polly Berends

    xoxo,Patti
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    " Who do you think you are? A superstar? Well, right you are. And we all shine on. Like the sun and the moon and the stars. We all shine on." (John Lennon

    xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."...Russell Crowe from Gladiator

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    Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental."...Meg Ryan from Sleepless in Seattle.

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    "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."...Robert De Niro from Wag the Dog

    Love and warm thoughts.MJB(Marilyn)
  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited January 2005
    "Life is short and we have never too

    much time for gladdening the hearts

    of those who are traveling the dark

    journey with us. Oh be swift to

    love, make haste to be kind."



    Henri Frederick Amiel
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    WIT AND WISDOM OF DOLLY PARTON

    "I hope people realize that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs."

    "It's a good thing I was born a girl,because if I'd have been a boy,I'd have been a drag queen."

    "After Mama gave birth to 12 of us kids,we put her up on a pedestal.It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her ."

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

    Percy Bysshe Shelley



    "Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."



    -- Pearl Strachan Hurd



    "The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold."



    -- Bible



    xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; A woman's weapon is her tongue...Hermione Gingold

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    All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them...Isak Dinesen

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    I think self-awareness is probably the most inportant thing towards being a champion...Billie Jean King

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    "In the hour of adversity be not without hope
    For crystal rain falls from black clouds."
    Persian Poem
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    "Sometimes I go about pitying myself
    And all the while I am being carried across the sky
    By beautiful clouds."
    Ojibway Indian saying
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    "Be yourself. The world worships the original."
    Ingrid Bergman
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    Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
    Henry Van Dyke
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    "You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note."
    Doug Floyd
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    Pay no attention to what the critics say;
    no statue has ever been erected to a critic."
    Jean Sibelius
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    I began to have an idea of my life,not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know...Joanna Field

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    Whether women are better than men I cannot say-but I can say they are certainly no worse...Golda Meir

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    Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses,possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size...Virginia Woolf

    Love and warm thoughts.MJB(Marilyn)
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.- Eknath Easwaran

    xoxo,Patti
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep."
    - Cinderella

    Here's to our hopes and dreams ladies....xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    "We are what we think"...Buddha
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    "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;not going all the way,and not starting"...Buddha
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    "Love is the reason you were born."...Dorothy Fields
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    "Life is a flower of which ,love is the honey...Victor Hugo

    Love and warm thoughts.MJB(Marilyn)
  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited January 2005
    Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.


    xoxo,Patti
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow...Helen Keller

    The thing that women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it...Roseanne
  • Boop
    Boop Member Posts: 616
    edited January 2005
    The course of human history is

    determined, not by what happens in

    the skies, but by what takes place

    in our hearts.



    Sir Arthur Keith
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    My only advise is to stay aware, listen carefully , and yell for help if you need it...Judy Blume

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    Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue ...Hermione Gingold

    Love and warm thoughts.MJB(Marilyn)
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    Some Trivia for you today

    1.Prior to 1953,the slogan of L&M cigarettes was "Just what the doctor ordered."
    2.The Mayflower was dismantled by the Pilgrims and turned into a barn.
    3.A popcorn kernel must contain at least 13.5% water to pop.
    4.Alaska has a sand desert with dunes more than 100 feet high.
    5.The bestselling tie colors in the U.S.are blue and red.
    6.Dog with the best eyesight is the greyhound.

    Love and warm thoughts. MJB(Marilyn)
  • MJB
    MJB Member Posts: 1,219
    edited January 2005
    There are voices which we hear in solitude,but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world...Emerson
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    I learned this,at least,by my experiment:that if one advances confidently in the direction of her dreams,and endeavors to live the life which she has imagined,she will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...Henry David Thoreau
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    Call it a clan,call it a network,call it a tribe.call it a family.Whatever you call it,whoever you are,you need one...Jane Howard

    Love and warm thoughts.MJB(Marilyn)
  • NPat
    NPat Member Posts: 485
    edited January 2005
    What lies behind us and what lies before us are but small matters compared to what lies within us.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Light always follows darkness.
    Anonymous

    Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
    Marilyn Vos Savant

    There are no failures-only learners.
    Buckminster Fuller

    Pat

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