The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Richard Cushing
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Thought of the Day
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Thought of the Day
The most powerful and predictable people-builders are praise and encouragement.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Thought of the Day
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Monday, December 27, 2010
Thought of the Day
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
D. L. Moody
D. L. Moody
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Thought of the Day
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Thought of the Day
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Thought of the Day
It seems rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Thought of the Day
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
~Francesca Reigler
~Francesca Reigler
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Thought of the Day
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montagu
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Thought of the Day
It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.
Andrew Greeley
Andrew Greeley
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Thought of the Day
It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Monday, December 6, 2010
Thought of the Day
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Melody Beattie
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Thought of the Day
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale
~Norman Vincent Peale
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thought of the Day
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Thought of the Day
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.
John C. Sawhill
John C. Sawhill
Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Thought of the Day
It is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly, by words, tones, gestures, looks, that affection is won and preserved.
George A. Sala
George A. Sala
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Thought of the Day
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
John Muir
John Muir
Monday, November 15, 2010
Thought of the Day
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes
Sunday, November 14, 2010
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Thought of the Day
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Thought of the Day
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Thought of the Day
The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for. Albert Schweitzer |
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Thought of the Day
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie |
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Thought of the Day
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Thought of the Day
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
- Bette Davis
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Thought of the Day
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust. Henry L. Stimson |
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Thought of the Day
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
~ Zig Ziglar
~ Zig Ziglar
Monday, November 1, 2010
Thought of the Day
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Thought of the Day
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. The rain falls soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand. Irish blessing |
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Thought of the Day
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependant on us. We are dependant on him. He is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider of our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so.
Mahatma Ghandi
Mahatma Ghandi
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Soil by Spring!
My leaf & yard waste bags were picked up today. They'll be soil by spring. One of my favorite parts of the campaign. Thanks again Anne for the idea and Heidi for making it happen!!
Thought of the Day
I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, "Be kind to one another." This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.
Randolph Ray
Randolph Ray
Monday, October 25, 2010
A few thank yous
To all who put their names forward to run in a municipal election today, thank you. Hope your campaigns have left you inspired and encouraged.
One day soon I need to stop and journal about all the moments that stood out during the campaign. It's been a great journey, thanks to all of you who came forward to help. Thank you for the many ways you have shown your support - the comments; notes; signs on lawns, cars & homes; donations; help with organizing the campaign; introductions to your family and friends; visits; meals; help raking to fill signs; company going door-to-door; mannequins sporting my t-shirt and the list could go on and on.
Thank you for your support. It means more than words can convey.
Kerry
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Thought of the Day
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. - Johann von Goethe |
Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Thought of the Day
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault |
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Food for Pollinators - Getting more from our Hanging Baskets
Last night I was at a workshop where the discussion touched on the need to provide plants for pollinators and to establish corridors. What about addressing the potential for hanging baskets that already line the main streets in many communities to include an assortment of pollinators? I recognize that these are taken down in the fall but am wondering if it's still a helpful suggestion for our climate? Thoughts?
I recognize this may be standard practice in some areas but wanted to start a discussion in the hopes of helping the practice expand.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Thought of the Day
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
- Knute Rockne
Monday, October 18, 2010
Thought of the Day
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
We are a Team
I'm wondering if my supporters saw a trend in my campaign.
We are a team.
I provide the poster, you post it. I provide the sign, you fill it. I get elected - your job has just begun.
As your representative, I will want to hear from you - about the good things you see and where we could improve. Let's keep the conversations going so Stratford benefits from everyone's input.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Thought of the Day
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
- Johann von Goethe
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
One word
Thought of the Day
If you want happiness for an hourtake a nap. If you want happiness for a daygo fishing. If you want happiness for a monthget married. If you want happiness for a yearinherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetimehelp others. - Chinese Proverb |
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Thought of the Day
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Do the Math Campaign Reflections - Day Three
Tonight I'm working on writing my response to a question about how far I'd go to support the City's Official Plan and my reflections to the Do the Math campaign. Contemplating both at the same time is interesting. We have finite resources. How do those who are hungry, who are on a waiting list for affordable housing, who want a splash pad or any myriad of scenarios feel about spending money that detracts from meeting their immediate needs/desires?
Sometimes there's no right answer. Is it right to spend money to uphold your official plan while people are hungry? Maybe yes, maybe no. Is it right to allow development to happen that may end up detracting from the quality of life others will enjoy in the future? Maybe yes, maybe no.
Hindsight is 20/20. Those who are ignorant of history are destined to repeat it. Could we go back in time, most would support reducing the number of properties developed into gas stations. Looking ahead, we must ask ourselves whether Stratford can support the additional retail space being proposed. While we want to prevent having our landscape littered with vacant buildings and pavement, we must respect the right of companies to do business. The official plan is a live document that as new information is presented, can be modified.
But at this moment, I'm hungry. Maslow comes to mind - it's hard to engage in a philosophical debate when your basic needs are not met.
Sometimes there's no right answer. Is it right to spend money to uphold your official plan while people are hungry? Maybe yes, maybe no. Is it right to allow development to happen that may end up detracting from the quality of life others will enjoy in the future? Maybe yes, maybe no.
Hindsight is 20/20. Those who are ignorant of history are destined to repeat it. Could we go back in time, most would support reducing the number of properties developed into gas stations. Looking ahead, we must ask ourselves whether Stratford can support the additional retail space being proposed. While we want to prevent having our landscape littered with vacant buildings and pavement, we must respect the right of companies to do business. The official plan is a live document that as new information is presented, can be modified.
But at this moment, I'm hungry. Maslow comes to mind - it's hard to engage in a philosophical debate when your basic needs are not met.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Do the Math Campaign Reflections - Day Two
Tonight there was a forum for Stratford's candidates for the position of Avon Maitland District School Board Trustee. As I've been considering what to take to school for lunch from what is in a typical hamper, I've better understood the challenge for those living in poverty to make sure they have the protein they need without endangering the lives of those with peanut allergies.
I'm missing fresh fruit and vegetables. There's a project in Toronto that I'd love to see considered for Stratford. Homeowners with trees that they are unable to harvest contact the organization. Volunteers then go pick the fruit and give 1/3 to the homeowner, keep 1/3 and donate 1/3 to the food bank. I love the model just haven't made time to explore it for Stratford yet. Would love to hear others' thoughts on this.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Do the Math Campaign Reflections - Day One
Realized this morning how much I appreciate having variety in my life. While the focus of the challenge is on food, choosing what to wear reminded me how fortunate I am to have choice.
Tonight a friend and I were doing some work together and I invited her for dinner. We shared a box of Kraft dinner. Having people over is a normal part of my life and I realized one of the ripple effects of poverty that would be most challenging for me is the sense of isolation in losing the ability to host others for meals.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Thought of the Day
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale
Friday, October 1, 2010
Thought of the Day
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.
Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Thought of the Day
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
Monday, September 27, 2010
Thought of the Day
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We will fall!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thought of the Day
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.
Mary Jean Iron
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Thought of the Day
Make visible what without you, might perhaps never have been seen. - Robert Bresson |
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Wondering about Wi-fi?
Thought you might want to hear from Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Arlene King, on the issue of Wi-Fi. Her report will only take you a few minutes to read and can be found here: On the Safety Wi-Fi
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Thought of the Day
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Monday, September 20, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Melbourne Principles for Sustainable Cities
Click on link to go to report - Melbourne Principles for Sustainable Cities
The Melbourne Principles were designed to respect the cultural uniqueness of communities while promoting sustainable living. Let's work together to make Stratford economically healthy, socially vibrant and ecologically sound. Visit the site and as you read the principles, please share ideas or concerns.
Kerry
The Melbourne Principles were designed to respect the cultural uniqueness of communities while promoting sustainable living. Let's work together to make Stratford economically healthy, socially vibrant and ecologically sound. Visit the site and as you read the principles, please share ideas or concerns.
Kerry
Thought of the Day
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
Japanese Proverb
Friday, September 17, 2010
New Campaign, New Look
Thanks to Anne for all her work updating the website and to Heidi for all the graphics. Check out under photos the picture of the lawn signs that will soon arrive! So thankful for a great team working with me.
Thought of the Day
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Thought of the Day
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Thought of the Day
There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh. ~Françoise Sagan |
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thought of the Day
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender
Betty Bender
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Thought of the Day
It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace.
Shenandoah Proverb
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Thought of the Day
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Thought of the Day
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun
Monday, September 6, 2010
Thought of the Day
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton
Conrad Hilton
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Thought of the Day
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Thought of the Day
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury
David Seabury
Friday, September 3, 2010
Thought of the Day
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. - Lois McMaster Bujold |
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Thought of the Day
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. ~Anonymous |
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Thought of the Day
We must have the courage to believe that the world we have dreamed will one day be made manifest and that what we do as individuals makes a difference. We must have the courage to reject the idea of settling for work that is destructive to human happiness, or even indifferent to it.
Laurence G. Boldt
Laurence G. Boldt
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Thought of the Day
Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.
E.F. Schumacher
E.F. Schumacher
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Thought of the Day
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Thought of the Day
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Denis Waitley
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Thought of the Day
There's a saying: "If the love of what you do exceeds the effort of doing it, success is inevitable."
Picabo Street
Picabo Street
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thought of the Day
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius |
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Thought of the Day
I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room. - Anna Quindlen |
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Thought of the Day
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt |
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Thought of the Day
Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.
Henry Ford
Monday, August 16, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thought of the Day
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Roy Croft
Roy Croft
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Thought of the Day
Those who devote their lives to a cause greater than themselves always find a larger, fuller life than the one they remembered.
Wilbert E. Scheer
Wilbert E. Scheer
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Thought of the Day
You don't have to be tough to survive, you have to be vulnerable...it's that sensitivity that makes you know how other people feel...to reach them.
Deborah Harry
Deborah Harry
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Thought of the Day
Called or not called, God will be there.
- Engraved in stone over the front door of Carl Jung.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Thought of the Day
The beauty of memory is that it still sees beauty when beauty has faded.
Paul Boese
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Thought of the Day
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter
Friday, August 6, 2010
Thought of the Day
A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Thought of the Day
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Helen Walton
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Thought of the Day
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Thought of the Day
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thought of the Day
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Thought of the Day
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Thought of the Day
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
Susan Ertz
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Thought of the Day
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Thought of the Day
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Thought of the Day
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Thought of the Day
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word that raises us above ourselves.
Arthur P. Stanley
Arthur P. Stanley
Monday, July 19, 2010
Thought of the Day
If you want something you've never had before, You've got to do something you've never done before.
Drina Reed
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Thought of the Day
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. - Anne Frank |
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Thought of the Day
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thought of the Day
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Thought of the Day
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Thought of the Day
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F. Buscaglia
Leo F. Buscaglia
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Thought of the Day
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Vallett
Robert Vallett
Monday, July 12, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Thought of the Day
Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being.
E.Y. Harburg
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Thought of the Day
Vision is the spectacular that inspires us to carry out the mundane.
- Chris Widener
- Chris Widener
Friday, July 9, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Thought of the Day
A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thought of the Day
It may be that two souls meet and it is not destined that they are to be together in this world. They touch each other and part. They have other work to do. Yet the meeting can never be forgotten; it is ingrained on the soul itself.
Reshad Field
Reshad Field
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Thought of the Day
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann von Goethe
Johann von Goethe
Friday, July 2, 2010
Thought of the Day
Until you know that life is interesting, and find it so, you haven't found your soul.
Geoffrey Fisher
Geoffrey Fisher
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Thought of the Day
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Thought of the Day
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold S. Kushner
Harold S. Kushner
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Thought of the Day
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. Johann von Goethe |
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Thought of the Day
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Thought of the Day
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Thought of the Day
Fear of failure or success is one and the same. Both are fear of exposure. Not of our strengths, but of our weaknesses.
Kevin W. McCarthy
Kevin W. McCarthy
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Thought of the Day
Do not give any time to your past, you can't change what happened 5 minutes ago.
Jan Ruhe
Jan Ruhe
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thought of the Day
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Lady Astor
Lady Astor
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Thought of the Day
When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
Sufi epigram
Monday, June 14, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Thought of the Day
Think of fear like alcohol. It impairs judgment. You shouldn't make any decisions while under its influence.
Gregory Berns
Gregory Berns
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Thought of the Day
You don’t have to be a ‘person of influence’ to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.
Scott Adams
Scott Adams
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Thought of the Day
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. Ben Lindsey
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Thought of the Day
Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
Betty White
Betty White
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Thought of the Day
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Thought of the Day
The functions of the executive are innovation and marketing. How much time do you spend on each?
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Thought of the Day
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Thought of the Day
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
Mary O'Connor
Mary O'Connor
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Thought of the Day
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thought of the Day
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Thought of the Day
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
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