Thoughts Sent In 2007
1/2/2007 If statisticians can be believed, my life is half lived.I don't want to spend this last half trying to recapture the first half. I want to stretch and grow and do bold things. - Phillip Gulley
1/3/2007 You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others. - Torkom Saraydarian
1/4/2007 You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. - Joan Didion
1/5/2007 Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. - Estonian Proverb
1/8/2007 To be heard, to have someone who will listen, might be our deepest human need. - Phillip Gulley
1/9/2007 Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. - Haile Selassie
1/10/2007 Things only have the value that we give them. - Jean-Baptise Poquelin Moliere
1/11/2007 There will always be a conflict between "good" and "good enough." - Henry Martyn Leland
1/12/2007 There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a king. - Orson Swett Marden
1/15/2007 One motivation is worth ten threats, two pressures, and six reminders. - Paul Sweeney
1/16/2007 Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live. - Unknown
1/17/2007 Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve. - Unknown
1/18/2007 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Hannah More
1/19/2007 Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, with a lame endeavor… - Isaac Barrow
1/22/2007 It's better to plunge into the unknown than to try to make sure of everything. - Gerald Lescarbeault
1/23/2007 It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. - Jean Nidetch
1/24/2007 It's difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown
1/25/2007 It's easy to have convictions when times are good, But what really counts is if you can keep your convictions when times are hard. - Philip Gulley
1/26/2007 It's not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it's not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier
1/29/2007 It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol
1/30/2007 It's the job that's never started (that) takes longest to finish. - J.R.R. Tolkien
1/31/2007 Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything and everyone you have right now, and then, somehow got everything back again. - Kobi Yamada
2/1/2007 Kind words do not wear out the tongue - so speak them. - Unknown
2/2/2007 Leadership is action, not position. - Donald H. McGannon
2/5/2007 Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. - Chinese Proverb
2/6/2007 Let each day be your masterpiece. - Unknown
2/7/2007 Life is life a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. - Lillian Dickson
2/8/2007 Light tomorrow with today. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2/9/2007 Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today. - Unknown
2/12/2007 Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.  - Mahabharata
2/13/2007 Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. - Jacob Bronowsky
2/14/2007 Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. - Unknown
2/15/2007 Some people are making such thorough preparations for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. - William Feather
2/16/2007 Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe. - Laurie Beth Jones Contributed by Patti Stollfuss
2/19/2007 Sometimes the only difference we can make is passing our wisdom on to someone who will make the difference. - Linda B. Gray
2/20/2007 Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to serve, a unique life role for you to fill. - Thomas Kinkade
2/21/2007 Start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go. - Jim Rohn
2/23/2007 Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them. - Gladys Knight
2/26/2007 It's not by doing the things we like, but by liking the things we do that we can discover life's blessings. - Goeth
2/27/2007 It's not the difference between people that's the difficulty. It's the indifference. - Unknown
2/28/2007 It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts. - Oscar Levant
3/1/2007 I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. - Mike Todd
3/2/2007 Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. - Ruth Graham
3/5/2007 Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad you are here, then you have not lived in vain. - Charles Fenno Hoffman
3/6/2007 Knowledge is power, and power is the key to changing things. - Jill Nelson
3/7/2007 Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. - Ivern Ball
3/8/2007 Knowledge is proud that she knows so much. Wisdom is humble that she knows so little. - Unknown
3/9/2007 Lean too much on the approval of people and it becomes a bed of thorns. - Tehyi Hsieh
3/12/2007 Talking is not like doing. - Lebanese Proverb
3/13/2007 Success…seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton
3/14/2007 Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within. - Mary Lou Cook
3/15/2007 Putting your best foot forward at least keeps it out of your mouth. - Morris Mandel
3/16/2007 Probably the most honest "self made man" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way." - James Thom
3/20/2007 When the mouth stumbles it is worse than the foot. - African Proverb
3/21/2007 When one door closes another opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
3/22/2007 When friends ask, there is no tomorrow … only now. - Alexander Drey
3/23/2007 What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. - Kitty O'Neill Collins
3/26/2007 Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money. - Unknown
3/27/2007 May I never lose sight of the beauty of each day. - Unknown
3/28/2007 Make your life a mission, not an intermission. - Arnold H. Glasgow
3/29/2007 Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not always be entirely with us. - Jawaharlal Nehru
3/30/2007 Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced. - Fran Tarkengton
4/2/2007 Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. - Eric Hoffer
4/3/2007 It's the things that pushed you the most that helped you the most. - Jim Loehr
4/4/2007 It's good to have money and the things that money can buy; but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy. - George Horace Lorimer
4/5/2007 It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad. - Jimmy Buffett
4/6/2007 It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4/9/2007 It is wonderful how you get used to things, even the most astonishing. - Edith Nesbit
4/10/2007 It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. - Claude Bernard
4/11/2007 It is often hard to distinguish between hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. - Frederick Phillips
4/12/2007 It is not love, but lack of love, which is blind. - Glenway Wescott
4/13/2007 It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise. - Luc De Clapiers
4/16/2007 It is far easier to leave angry words unspoken than to mend the heart those words have broken. - Unknown
4/17/2007 It is better to deserve without receiving, than to receive without deserving. - Robert Ingersol
4/18/2007 It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way. - Henry R. Harrower
4/19/2007 Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than miss that chance to do good? - Denis Diderot
4/20/2007 In the end, what effects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about. - Nell Blaine
4/23/2007 In some attempts, it is glorious even to fail. - Longinus
4/24/2007 In playing ball, or in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: Being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing. - Hank Aaron
4/25/2007 Imagination is stronger than knowledge … dreams are more powerful than facts … hope always triumphs over experience. - Robert Fulghum
4/26/2007 Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. . . - Walter Lippman
4/27/2007 If you want to be first-class, you've got to act first class. - Joe Namath
4/30/2007 If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
5/1/2007 If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou
5/2/2007 If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape. - Unknown
5/3/2007 If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it. - Tyger
5/4/2007 If you believe in what you're doing, it's amazing how much you can accomplish. - Jennifer Stockburger
5/7/2007 A person flattened by an opponent can get up again. A person flattened by conformity stays down for good. - Thomas J. Watson Jr.
5/8/2007 A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. - Joseph Collins
5/9/2007 An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint. - Booker T. Washington
5/10/2007 Constantly choosing between the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. - Jerry Garcia
5/11/2007 Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. - Liane Cardes
5/14/2007 Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
5/15/2007 Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks
5/16/2007 When we're young, we think we know all there is to know. Then we grow older, and the more we learn, the more we realize how little we know. - Philip Gulley
5/17/2007 Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. - Desmond Tutu
5/18/2007 Experiments don't fail. When you try something new, you either learn that it is worthwhile for you or that it does not work for you, and thus save future time by not trying it again. - Stanley Goldstein
5/21/2007 Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott
5/22/2007 Follow your bliss, and what looks like walls will turn into doors. - Joseph Campbell
5/23/2007 For anything worth having one must always pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. - John Burroughs
5/24/2007 Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. - Jean De La Bruyere
5/25/2007 Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5/29/2007 Give your troubles to God; He will be up all night anyway. - Unknown
5/30/2007 Go the extra yard - it makes a mile of difference. - Paul M. Melia
5/31/2007 Good leaders guide the willing and persuade the stubborn. - Ragan Communications Daily Motivator
6/1/2007 Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. - Colton
6/4/2007 Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when out affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To Love,  and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. - J.J. Buckrose
6/5/2007 Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - E. Joseph Cossman
6/6/2007 He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house. - Danish proverb
6/7/2007 Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum
6/8/2007 He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass. - George Herbert
6/11/2007 If you can't have fun at it, there's no sense hanging around. - Joe Montana
6/12/2007 If you don't believe in yourself, who will? - Unknown
6/13/2007 If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? - Basil S. Walsh
6/14/2007 If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get. - Vernon Luchies
6/15/2007 If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. - Morris West
6/18/2007 If you wait for everything to be perfect according to your preconceived plans, then you may wait forever. If you go out and work with the current of life, you may find that success comes from building upon small things. - Deng Ming-Dao
6/19/2007 If you want to be original, be yourself. - Unknown
6/20/2007 I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special when I'm here. - Payne Stewart
6/21/2007 In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention? - Henry Parks
6/22/2007 If you can go home to someone who loves you, if your children are proud of you, if you can keep your integrity, you've hit the jackpot. - Philip Gulley
6/25/2007 Pleasure is seldom found where it is sought: Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. - Samuel Johnson
6/26/2007 Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment the other for all time. - Chilon
6/27/2007 Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. - Ezra Taft Benson
6/28/2007 Real intelligence is a creative knowledge, not merely an accumultion of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use the information productively. - Dr. Kenneth Winebrenner
6/29/2007 Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. - Eckhart Tolle
7/2/2007 Remember, there are two benefits of failure: First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach. - Roger Von Oech
7/3/2007 Respect yourself. If you don't, nobody will. - Unknown
7/5/2007 Running from problems is a sure way of running into problems. - Bits & Pieces
7/6/2007 Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason they can. - Willis R. Whitney
7/9/2007 I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
7/10/2007 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 the something I can do. - Helen Keller
7/11/2007 I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. - Walter Cronkite
7/12/2007 I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything in nature. - John D. Rockefeller
7/13/2007 I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln
7/16/2007 I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having trouble. - Tommy Lasorda
7/17/2007 I have more trouble with myself than with any other person I have met. - Dwight L. Moody
7/18/2007 I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. - Edward Appleton
7/19/2007 I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. - Bob Dole
7/20/2007 I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson
8/6/2007 The great contribution we can make is to prepare the oncoming generation to think that they can and will think for themselves. - Charles H. Mayo
8/7/2007 The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr
8/8/2007 The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perserverance. - Owen Feltham
8/9/2007 The greatest thing a man can fo in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. - Orson Swett Marden
8/10/2007 The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, that you're the one who gets burned. - Siddhartha Gautama
8/13/2007 Your purpose is the essence of who you are. It is the reason you are alive. To know your purpose, you first have to know who you are. - Idelettee Van Papendorp
8/14/2007 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life … Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs
8/15/2007 You will be happier if you will give people a bit of your heart rather than a piece of your mind. - Unknown
8/16/2007 You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. - Mary Wortley Montagu
8/17/2007 You are where you are right now in your life because of the choices you have made and the actions you have taken. If you want to change your life, remember that change starts with you. - Jeffrey Keller
8/20/2007 You cannot buy enthusiasm… You cannot buy loyalty … You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You must earn these. - Unknown
8/21/2007 You will never be happy with what you want if you are not happy with what you have. - Unknown
8/22/2007 A company is known by the people it keeps. - Unknown
8/23/2007 Actions, not words, are the true criteria of the attachment of friends. - George Washinton
8/24/2007 Good words shall gain you honor in the market-place, but good deeds, shall gain you friends among men. - Lao-tse
8/27/2007 Greatness is not standing above our fellows and ordering them around - it is standing with them and helping them to be all they can be. - G. Arthur Keough
8/28/2007 He who is confident in himself will lead the rest. - Horace
8/29/2007 He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it is as guilty as the wrongdoers. - Omaha Indian Proverb
8/30/2007 Hold fast to time! Use it! Be conscious of each day, each hour! They slip away unnoticed all too easily and swiftly. - Thomas Mann
8/31/2007 I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than do have things I am not able to appreciate. - Elbert Hubbard
9/4/2007 I would rather make my name than inherit it. - William Makepeace Thackery
9/5/2007 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. - John Galsworthy
9/6/2007 If a man has done his best, what else is there? - George S. Patton
9/7/2007 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck
9/10/2007 If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the world against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
9/11/2007 If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. - Horace Traubel
9/12/2007 If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. - W. Clement Stone
9/13/2007 If you can forgive and move on with your life, you can find peace. You must learn how to forgive, not only other people, but also yourself. - Tyler Perry
9/14/2007 If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? - Unknown
9/16/2007 If you spend so much time on things that are urgent, you have none left to spend on those that are important. - Gustav Mertxman
9/18/2007 If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. - African Proverb
9/19/2007 If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And, then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really - to keep looking at the world in the right way. - John Cusack
9/20/2007 Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. - J.G. Gallimore
9/21/2007 Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
9/24/2007 In our determined scramble toward adulthood, we leave some valuable treasures behind us. - Thomas Kinkade
9/25/2007 In the long run you will receive more from life doing the job you enjoy than you will ever earn in money from a job you loathe. - Terry L. Mayfield
9/26/2007 Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. - Brendan Francis
9/27/2007 It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. - Sally Kempton
9/28/2007 It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. - Spanish Proverb
10/1/2007 Your dream might change our planet. - Edward Lindaman
10/2/2007 You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. - Barbra Streisand
10/3/2007 You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln
10/4/2007 You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be. - Max Lucado
10/5/2007 You are 100 percent responsible for 50 percent of any relationship. - Wyatt Webb
10/8/2007 Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way - Unknown
10/9/2007 Some days there won't be a song in your heart.  Sing anyway. - Emory Austin
10/10/2007 Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
10/11/2007 Sharing what you have is more important than what you have. - Albert M. Wells, Jr.
10/12/2007 Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong actions in the past. - Tyron Edwards
10/15/2007 A little experience upsets a lot of theory. - S. Parkes Cadman
10/16/2007 It's not charisma, or barnstorming antics, or grand pronouncements that make a great leader: it's a very real concern and respect for people at every level of the organization - and the courage to act in their interest. - Beverly Kaye
10/17/2007 Leaders should know where they are going. - RWL
10/18/2007 Success can come in many areas, such as motherhood, business, or volunteering. It can be finding something that leads you to say, "Nothing I ever did made me feel this important." - Elizabeth Dole
10/19/2007 Success comes in a can . . . "I can!" - Wally Amos
10/22/2007 Success comes before work only in the dictionary. - Unknown
10/22/2007 Your power is limited only by you power of persuasion. - Sheri Wilson-Gray
10/23/2007 You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future. - Zig Ziglar
10/25/2007 Wisdom comes with talking less frivolously and listening more seriously. The latter implies a learning attitude; the former assumes an air of omniscience that does not exist. - S. K. Chakraborty
10/26/2007 Why not spend some time in determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that? - William Ross
10/29/2007 When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser
10/30/2007 When secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide: skill loves the light. - Daniel G. Gilman
10/31/2007 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - E.W. Hove
11/1/2007 What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. - Portuguese Proverb
11/2/2007 What should happen when you make a mistake is this: You take your knocks, you learn your lessons, and then you move on. - Ronald Reagan
11/5/2007 When you are younger, you get blamed for crimes you never committed, and when you're older you begin to credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. - I.F. Stone
11/6/2007 When you build bridges you can keep crossing them. - Rick Patino
11/7/2007 When you can see the humorous side of a situation that has scared you, you are well on your way to transforming that fear. When you take positive action in spite of fear, you win a victory. - Marilyn C. Barrick
11/8/2007 When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller
11/9/2007 Don't judge folks by their relatives. - Unknown
11/12/2007 If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren
11/13/2007 In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. - Sheldon Kopp
11/14/2007 It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must show them that we do so. - Lord Eric Avebury
11/15/2007 It is not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts. - Harold Russell
11/16/2007 It isn't so much what's on the table that matters as what's on the chairs. - William Schwenck Gilbert
11/19/2007 It's the little things you do day in and day out that count. That's the way you teach your children. - Amanda Pays
11/20/2007 Knock the "t" off the "Can't." - George Reeves
11/21/2007 The test of thankfulness is not what you have to be thankful for, but whether anyone else has reason to be thankful you are here. - unknown
11/24/2007 Yes'm, old friends is always best. 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. - Sarah Orne Jewett
11/26/2007 The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again. - Alan Patton
11/27/2007 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers
11/28/2007 The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once. - John C. Maxwell
11/29/2007 The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. - Howard Cosell
11/30/2007 The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. - W. Somerset Maugham
12/3/2007 Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge. - William H. Gray
12/4/2007 Nothing is produced, no progress is made, by being against or criticizing something. Progress, including personal success, results from being for something and doing something about it. - Ben Miller
12/5/2007 Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions…. Just as soon as you attain one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. - L.M. Montgomery
12/6/2007 Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. - Ralph Blum
12/7/2007 Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set bad examples. - Unknown
12/10/2007 Never be unreceptive to facts, however discouraging, disappointing, or injurious to your personal welfare they may appear to be. - Erwin W. Schell
12/11/2007 Never be afraid to take on a really tough problem. When you solve it, the benefits will be that much greater. Carl A. Gerstacker
12/12/2007 Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. - Charles Dickens
12/13/2007 Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. - Decimus Junius Juvenal 
12/14/2007 Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - Edwin H. Chapin
12/17/2007 Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it. - Barbara Sher
12/18/2007 For any of us to be truly free - if we are to learn to soar in this changing world -- we must first be willing to be responsible for our lives. - David McNally
12/19/2007 Half-heartedness never won a battle. - William McKinley
12/20/2007 Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself. - Morrie Schwartz
12/21/2007 Live simply; love extravagantly. - Unknown

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