February 2005

2-1 "Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." - Jim Rohn

2-2 “This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!” - Henrik Ibsen

2-3 “Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.” ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

2-4 “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” - Anais Nin

2-5 “Just because you want me to give up, doesn't mean I will." - Traci Connelly

2-6 “Worry doesn’t help tomorrow’s troubles, but it does ruin today’s happiness.” - Anon

2-7 “Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” - Leo Buscaglia  

2-8 “The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.” - Albert Einstein 

2-9 “Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be silent, if no birds sang except the best."
- Author Unknown

2-10 “He who would be happy should stay at home.” - Greek proverb

2-11 “Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” - Edwin Way Teale

2-12 “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Unknown

2-13 “The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.” - Francis Bacon

2-14 “Love What You Do. Do What You Love.” - Wayne Dyer

2-15 “He who doesn’t accept the conditions of life sells his soul.” - Charles Baudelaire

2-16 “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” - Epictetus

2-17 “The world has cares enough to plague us; but he who meditates on other’s woes shall, in that meditation, lose his own.” - Cumberland

2-18 “Be an all-out, not a hold-out." - Unknown

2-19 “Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” - Henry David Thoreau

2-20 “There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” - Carl Jung

2-2 " Perfect comes with fears and a false front." - Aaron Stead

2-22 " By being active, we are doubling our efficiency. By being inactive, we are hiding our efficiency. But remember, we have efficiency (only hiding it)." - Author Unknown

2-23 " Life is like a book with many different chapters, some tell of tragedy and others of triumph. Some chapter are dull and ordinary, others intense and exciting. The key to being a success in life is to never stop on a difficult page, to never quit on a tough chapter. Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because the know a better chapter lies ahead." - Author Unknown

2-24 " I never let the grass grow under my feet because I don't keep the same position. When there's a chance, I don't take it but when there's an opportunity, I take it." - Mxolisi Xulu

2-25 " If you encounter difficulty, don't change your decision to go, change your direction to get there." - Coach Geisler

2-26 " The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

2-27 " To believe is to know with passion." - M.C. Silver

2-28 “The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.” - Andre Marois

March 2005

3-1 " I will not accept fear, weakness, or failure. The only defeat I will accept is a matter in which is out of my hands. Therefore I will reach out my hands and change it."

- Tyler Barr

3-2 " Sometimes a simple "I still believe in you" can mean so much from someone and be so helpful in knowing all isn't lost." - Andrea Holmen

3-4 " Life is like surfing. Sometimes we all get tied up on looking and waiting for that perfect wave to come along. While doing this, we forget that surfing is not about finding that awesome wave, it's about enjoying the moment, loving what you're doing, going with the flow and making the best of what's been given to you." - Ray Memita

3-5 " No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams

3-6 " I am in control of my own destiny." - Author Unknown

3-7 " Sometimes in life things happen and you think the world stops. Hold strong, really it has only changed direction, your future is always as bright as you want it to be."
- Octavia Allen

3-8 " Have courage when times may fail. Be not afraid to make a change. Take a chance on the inevitable. Make a difference in everything you do. Be the person who you were meant to be. Success is not born; it is made by those who seek to see the difference in everything, turning the impossible into a possible success." - Leon William

 3-9 " You are what you think. Think positively and look at the bright sides of the world."
- Author Unknown

3-10 " Balance between mind and body is what allows us to achieve the most in lives. Never lose the balance and you will always hold the focus needed to achieve your toughest goals." - Samuel K. Aidoo

3-11 " The gap between where I am today and where I want to be is too vast, but I shall cover the distance by small leaps forward, for the tortoise never thought of the distance but kept leaping forward." -  Ankush Arora

3-12 " It is good to start doing things that you want to do, but then its better to start doing things that you were meant to do." - Author Unknown

3-13 " Pursue your objectives with a steadfast belief and confidence at each and every instance, whether in 'thought' or 'deed'." - Vashi Chandiramani

3-14 " Make it happen, help it happen, or get out of the way." - Author Unknown

3-15 " In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY." - Satish Kumar

3-16 " I sit in this world watching, listening and learning. All this hell that surrounds me will not bring me down. I am too strong, I love life too much to forget what is possible to attain, if you work hard and never give up." - Shane Fredrick

 3-17 "Sometimes only the struggle makes it worth it, only the pain makes it sweet, and only victory is the answer." - Author Unknown 

3-18 " Never Give Up! Find A Way To Win!" - M.H

3-19 " To achieve it, you have to KNOW it in your HEAD and BELIEVE it in your HEART."
- L. Schmitt

3-20 " Don't look up to champions, be one." - Jesse Poulton

 3-21 " It's not what you do that defines you. What defines you is how well you rise after you have fallen." - Author Unknown.

3-22 " A destined soul sits --- mine runs." - Matt Catinella

3-23 " Heroes run to danger." - Michael Castellano

3-24 " You are the world's greatest, when you say you are." - R.Kelly

3-25 " In order to achieve our dearest dream, we should never father the idea of failure or even second guess ourselves. As soon as we let our insecurities get the best of us and decide to settle for anything less than our dearest dream, all it will ever be is simply a dream."
- Mariusz Mazurek

3-26 " If your mind is open, you will never face closed doors." - Larissa Belcher

3-27 " I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." - Nikola Tesla

3-28 " Desire, dedication and determination is the only formula of success." - Ranjeet Mehta

3-29 " Those who dream of success, dream with their eyes wide open. They set goals, work hard, overcome obstacles and achieve success." - Rohit Gupta

3-30 " If you think you've done it, then your wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could." - Brendan Manning

April 2005

4-1 “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.” - Anon

4-2 "For man is in control of his own destiny, have faith of what you can do, for it only boils down to the level of your desire to achieve your dreams." - Erwin S. Eusebio

4-3 " If you're not a step ahead, are you sure you're not a step behind?" - Kirk Schafer

4-4 " When you are looking for something, you must believe you will find it. When you are scared, you must believe your fear cannot overtake you. The hope in your heart will always be there and once you access it-the possibilities are endless." - Nicci Cettolin

 4-5 " Why cry if you can laugh? Why wait if you can act? Get out there - make a difference!"
- Author Unknown

4-6 " No matter how many times you fail at something, you are never a failure until the day you quit trying." - Michael T. Vaisanen

4-7 " You will never win unless you guys bond and play as a team. A bunch of amazing individuals will never beat a good team unless you play as a team." - Denny Allen

4-8 Here's the difference between a Champion and Others:

" A champion, when he fell, always got back up and tried even harder. He slowed down over the speed bumps and hit a pothole now and then, but each time, he kept going. He didn't care how bad it hurt or hard he had to try. Others, on the other hand, when they fell, stayed there. Maybe tried to get up and kept falling and didn't try to get up anymore. Stopped at the speed bumps and fell into the potholes. Quit when he hurt and was tired. If you want to be a champion, try and try again. Never let your hopes slip out of your hands." -  Jessy Oho

4-9 " We plan more but accomplish less. Don't be a background observer ... be an active player. Don't wait for a personal invitation to speak your mind cause you'll never know until you try. Go deeper ... Reach higher. No pain ... No gain ma' friend and always remember that things which hurt ... INSTRUCT." - Author Unknown

4-10 " The 3 P's to success - Passion, Persistence & Patience." - Doug Bronson

4-11 " Warriors, like all men, always fear failing but they never ever in their life let fear take control over them." - Vibhore Jain

4-12 “Never give up! You only get one life - live it to the fullest!” - Author Unknown

4-13 " Celebrate your failures. Failures teach you to succeed in life. One failure opens the door for hundreds of successes." - Author Unknown

4-14 " There is no such thing as an extraordinary person. There are only ordinary people continuing on where others give up. The moment one passes the "Give Up Point", EVERYTHING looks EXTRAORDINARY!" - Sharole B. Kaes

4-15
" You can push me, but I stand still. You can hit me, but I feel no pain. You can scream anything, but I will not hear. You will never bring me down because I will not let you get to me. Watch me win!" - Larry Childs

4-16 " If things don't happen by your wish, make them happen by your will." - Nagesh Jadhav

4-17 " Excellence Inspires, Experience it!" - Vashi Chandiramani

4-18
" Keymakers: Some people see a closed door and turn away. Others see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't work they turn away. Still others see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't open, they find a key. If the key doesn't fit, they turn away. A rare few see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't open, they find a key. If it doesn't fit, they make one." - Author Unknown

4-19 " The ultimate motivator is defeat. Once you are defeated, you have nowhere to go except the top." - Author Unknown

4-20 " There is a false belief within our society that to be a winner you have to hit a home run each and every time you go to hit the ball. In reality very few human beings can turn out these sorts of averages. Simply, a winner keeps trying to hit the ball until he hits more than he misses; losers quit." - Author Unknown

4-21 " Motivation is the key to success. Failure is the product of loss of motivation. Together we can learn that not trying and failing, is worse then trying and failing. For when you try and fail, you learn from your mistake and while doing nothing provides, not only empty promises but empty lives." - Jordan Duncan

4-22  " As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious." - Albert Schweitzer

4-23 " A good leader is like a ladder that gives his followers an opportunity to reach a higher level of success." - Jose B. Cabajar

4-24 " Start what is necessary, then the possible and suddenly you are going to do impossible."
- Author Unknown

4-25 " Everyone can look at the stars; it takes a champion to climb a mountain to get one."
- Author Unknown

4-26 " If someone thinks they have all the answers, it just means that they haven't been asked all the questions." - Author Unknown

 4-27 "D-determination
R-realization
E-excitement
A-action
M-mission
S-success"
- Zeus Villafuerte

4-28 " Dream it, think it, visualize it, make it real." - Oliver dela Cuesta

4-29 " Failure is the messenger of success." - Author Unknown

4-30 " It is not only "the slow but steady wins the race", but the slow, steady, and staying on course wins the race." - Colleen Spiegel

7-1 "The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin

7-2 " The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment." - Justin Langer

7-3 " Believing and dreaming go hand in hand." - Beverly McKenzie

7-4 “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart

7-5 "To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage." - W. Clement Stone

7-6 " Remember in life we gamble; the earth is a playroom full of obstacles and thrills, so let things flow and you'll find good reasons...learn from it." -  Hyriah Candao

7-7 "Some pursue happiness, others create it." - Anon

7-8 “The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.” - Anon

7-9 " Everything you've done in life- the good, the bad- have all brought you to this moment. Someone out there obviously wants you to do something significant, right now. That person is you." -  Chris Lee

7-10 " Don't ever give up on a dream due to the amount of time it will take to achieve it. The time will pass anyway." -  Russ Ebsen

7-11 " True victory is not about finishing first; it is about finishing regardless of how many times you fall." - Rebecca Eilts

7-12 "Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is."  - Catfish Hunter

7-13 "There are 3 ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

- Christopher Morley

7-14 " If you don't push yourself to the limit, how do you know where the limit is?"
-  Kristina K.

7-15 " The Goal in life is not always fast paced but steady & consistently paced. A great deal of the time it's not who is the fastest but who endures and finishes. Do what it takes to FINISH!" - Delaney Jones

7-16 " Sometimes we have to move the sun and the moon to get to the stars… your goal... your star..." -  Tye Frazier

7-18 " If your ship has not yet come in, build a lighthouse."
-  Rod R. Garcia

7-19 “Life begins on the other side of despair.” - Jean Paul Sartre

7-19 “No pleasure begins without pain.” - Anon

7-20 “Please don’t ask me to relax – it’s only the tension that’s holding me together.”

- Helen Murray

7-21 “You always get negative reactions, if you worry about that you would never do anything.” - Tom Monaghan

7-22 " Each failure is simply another chapter to the story of our lives. To fail is to understand what not to do. Remember it and don't give up until your goal is achieved."

- Samuel Aidoo

7-23 "When life throws shoes at you.... at least pick through the best ones and try them on for size!" - Jasbeen S.

7-24 " To begin a journey one must have courage; to finish a journey one must have perseverance." - Alex Sung

7-25 " The nose of the Bulldog is slanted back, so that he can still breathe without ever letting go." - Winston Churchill

7-26 “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

7-27 "Work and love - these are the basics. Without them is neurosis." - Theodor Reik

7-28 " If you want to excel, do not stare at the stairs but rather step on a stair."
- Author Unknown

7-29 "Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve." - Anon

7-30 "In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure."

- Heart Warrior Chosa

7-31 " When life deals you a losing hand, don't look to what you have lost, look to what you have to gain." - Author Unknown

August 2005

8-1 "A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is."

- Michel de Montaigne

8-2 "If it is to be, it is up to me." - Anon

8-3 "Take time every day to do something silly." - Philipa Walker

8-4 "Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple." - C.W. Ceram

8-5 "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today,

you can do it again tomorrow." - Anon

8-6 "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

8-7 "Think of the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank

8-8 "What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable." - Louise Nevelson

8-9-05 " Aspire to acquire the desire that you admire. But if in the process you perspire, don't retire but refire to acquire that desire that you admire." - Author Unknown

8-10 " Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere....to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang tough together." - Tony Dungy

8-11 "The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."

- Nicolas de Chamfort

8-12 "Every new day begins with possibilities.

It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."

- Ronald Reagan

8-13 –05 " Opportunity often comes in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat."
- Napoleon Hill

8-14-05 " If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

8-15 "Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of  what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front - and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else." ~ Mr. Rogers

8-16 "Clear your mind of 'can't'." ~ Samuel Johnson

8-17 "Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it."

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

8-18 PLAY - A Fish Principle

"Work made fun gets done, especially when we choose to do serious tasks in a lighthearted, spontaneous way. Play is not just an activity; it's a state of mind

that brings new energy to the tasks at hand and sparks creative solutions."

- Fish! Tales Book

8-19 "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”

- Charles M. Schwab

8-20 " The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. But for all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap!" - M.C. Hershey

8-21 " It is better to lose a hard fought battle, than avoid a battle because it is too hard to fight." - Andrew Faunt

8-22 "It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot (1819-1880) English Novelist

8-23 "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;

not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France

8-24 “That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?”

- William Lyon Phelps

8-25 "Only 10 types of people understand binary: Those who do, and those who don't."

8-26 “Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;

Scatter bits of courtesy – watch them grow and grow.

Gather buds of friendship, keep them till full-blown;

You will find more happiness than you have ever known.”

- Amy R. Raabe

8-27 “Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

8-28 " I am Someone, with Something, going Somewhere!" - Julie Odushile

8-29 " Life is a game. Take a chance and play it. You can win!" - Rekha Kumar

8-30 " Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." - Basho

8-31 " Your passion should drive your exploration, not your reaction." -  S. Kevin Hungate

September 2005

9-1 " NEVER stop trying, even when everything seems to be lost. Stand up tall, wipe away your tears and never give up." - Author Unknown

9-2 " If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
- Henry Ford

9-3 " We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems." - Margaret Mead

9-4 " Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." - Goethe

9-5 "And whatever I do, Will become forever what I've done."

- Wislawa Szymborska – poet

9-6 "Quarterbacks don't win or lose football games. Teams do." - Fran Tarkenton

9-7 "What keeps me going is goals.” - Muhammad Ali

9-8 " Never burn your bridges because you just might have to cross them again."

- Professor William McCray

9-9 “Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.” - John Sutherland Bonnell

9-10 " Turn your ideas into realities. If you don't, then they become fantasies of what you could have had." - Briana Johnson

9-11 " Music is a language that not everyone can speak, but all can understand."

-  Joseph Maas

9-12 "Fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them."

- Earl Tupper (1907-1983) American Businessman, Tupperware Inventor

9-13 “Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man’s outward circumstance…a man living in the lap of luxury can be wtretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.” - William Barclay

9-14 "Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll keep getting what you’re getting.” - Anon

9-15 "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) 36th US President

9-16 "You can never go forward in life if you keep looking back."

- Professor William McCray

9-17 “You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.” - Dr. James G. Bilkey

9-18 " Happiness is something you create...Start Today!" ~ Author Unknown

9-19  "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Norman MacFinan

9-20 “Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.”

- Matthew Arnold

9-21 "Everything worth achieving has its price.  And, by corollary, if you are prepared to pay that price you can achieve almost anything." - Faye Weldon

9-22 “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” - Foe Ancis

9-23 “Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.” - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Writer 

9-24 “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” - Maxim Gorky

9-25 “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. 

Then you will see how low it is.” - Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961) 

9-26 " Hope is a torch; the more you have, the brighter the world will be."

- Michael C.

9-27 " A gate that doesn't creak, slams shut!" - Author Unknown

9-28 "Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them." - Colton

9-29 "The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person." - Brian Tracy

9-30 “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

- Norman Vincent Peale

October 2005

10-1 "Change is the unpredictability in life challenging you to catch up."

- Rajesh Narasimhan

10-2 "Walk on with hope and you will never get lost." - Sunit Lalwani

10-3 "The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Chinese proverb

10-4 "There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid."  - Gandhi

10-5 "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."  - Harry Truman

10-6 "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."  - Brian Tracy

10-7 "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

German Born American Physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

10-8 " For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease." - Author Unknown

10-9 " Any chance you get, take it. You never know what it could lead to." - Jackie F

10-10 " Being able to dance is like being able to fly; with wings you can do anything."
- Author Unknown

10-11 "Destiny is not a matter of CHANCE, it's a matter of CHOICE; it's not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be ACHIEVED." - William Jennings Bryan

(1860-1925) US Congressman, Secretary of State, Presidential Candidate

10-12 "Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live live Bravely, Excitingly, Imaginitively." - Eleanor Roosevelt

(1884-1962) UN Diplomat, Humanitarian, US First Lady

10-13 "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" - Dr. Robert Schuller

10-14 “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

10-15 “Enjoy yourself. These are the ‘good old days’ you’re going to miss in the years ahead.” - Anon

10-16 “The best quotes inspire us not only to think; but to do, by which we achieve.”

- Scott Burie, (1966-?   ), pbp/r2pp

10-17 “When you combine passion and hard work, then success is always possible.”

- Arte Moreno (1946-   ) Owner of Los Angeles Angels, first Hispanic owner of a Major League sports team. Former outdoor advertising salesman.

10-18 " Life is like a teacher; it teaches you many lessons. If you pay attention and are aware of the teacher of life you will graduate to a great life. If you are not aware, the teacher of life will teach you the same lessons over and over until you do pay attention."

- Mark Sternberg
 

10-19 " One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching." - John Dewey

10-20 " Thought is the parent of the deed." - Thomas Carlyle

10-21 " Trying times are for doing just that....TRYING!" - Author Unknown

10-22 " Think out of the bowl... don't be like everyone else...there is nothing special about being like someone else...and if you work hard enough, you will be magnificent...and that is the greatest you can be." - Brenda Clark, Speech Coach

10-23 " Knowledge generation really only occurs in teams where people engage in doing meaningful work." - Paul Senge

10-24 " The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker." - Helen Keller

10-25 " I don't drive the bus; I honk the horn." - Stanley Zazarinski

10-26 Life is not as difficult as it seems,
In every tough time a sign of happiness beams.
Whenever low-whenever down,
Remember life is a beautiful song.
So don't be low, don't be down,
Lead life like a beautiful song.
- Jasleen Johar

10-27 " Try to avoid the most natural of all human tendencies; the nonchalant habit of resisting and rejecting out of hand, what we fail to appreciate or comprehend."

- Joseph P. Martino

10-28 " Results are better than intentions." - Dr. Phil

10-29 " Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

10-30 " Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and education for making a living." - James Mason Wood

10-31 “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” - Steve Almond

November 2005

11-1

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won." - Winston Churchill

(1874-1965) British Prime Minister during WWII

11-2

"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford

(1863-1947) American Industrialist, Inventor

11-3

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

(500-320) Writings of Chinese Philosophers

11-4

"Persistent people begin their success where other end in failure." - Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) American Clergyman/ Author

11-5

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

11-6

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

(1706-1790) American Statesman, Writer, Scientist + Printer

11-7

"It's a funny thing about life; If you refuse to accept anything but the BEST you very often get it." - W. Somerset Maugham

(1874-1965) British Writer - Highest Paid Author in the World During the 1930's

11-8

"Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul." - From an old English prayer

11-9

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." - Confucius

11-10

“To do the useful thing, to say
                           the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.” - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
                           American Poet

11-11

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either." - Wayne Dyer

11-12

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. " - Charles Dickens

11-13

“He who smiles rather than rages
                           is always the stronger.” - Japanese proverb

11-14

“You don't stop laughing because grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.”

- Michael Pritchard

11-15

“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

- John Updike

11-16

“None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread… The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” - Bernard M. Baruch

11-17

“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.” - Joel Goodman

11-18

" The only thing that's the 'end of the world,' is...the end of the world!" - PJ Bahr

11-19

" Luck is an ideal whereby opportunity meets preparedness and favored by correctness." - S`bongiseni Nkosi

11-20

" Sometimes we are too busy staring in one direction, having been pacified with what has been and what is, that we miss out on what surrounds us and what could be or what might have been." - Ronald J. Champion

11-21

"The most important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

11-22

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.” - Helen Keller

11-23

" The lessons learned by students are not always the lessons the teacher intended to teach." - Dennis Gable

11-24

" It is our duty to change the world." - Sydney Poitier

In the 1967 movie “To Sir, With Love"

11-25

" There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." - G.K. Chesterton

11-26

" It is not a question how much a man knows but what use he makes of what he knows."
- Author Unknown

11-27

" When you change the life of a child...then you change the world!" - Author Unknown

11-28

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” - Dr. Suess

11-29

"The biggest failure in life is not trying." - Professor William Mc Cray

11-30

Here's some quotes to reflect upon this Thanksgiving holiday:

“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”

  ~H.U. Westermayer

“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” - Robert Caspar Lintner

“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

“Our rural ancestors, with little blest,

Patient of labour when the end was rest,

Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,

With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.”

- Alexander Pope

“Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t.”

- Unknown

“Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.” - Edward Sandford Martin

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise -- then you will discover the fullness of your life.” - Brother David Steindl-Rast

“Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.”  - E.P. Powell

“Our thanksgiving today should include those things which we take for granted.”

- Betty Fuhrman

“Thanksgiving comes to us out of prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and faiths. At whatever straws we may grasp, there is always a new time for gratitude and new beginnings.” - J. Robert Moskin

And some fun quotes:

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. “ - Irv Kupcinet

“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.” - Alistair Cooke

“My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. “

- Ted Allen

“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;

Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!”

- Margaret Junkin Preston

“It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.” - Marilu Henner

“What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets.  I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”

- Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981

“He who thanks but with the lips

Thanks but in part;

The full, the true Thanksgiving

Comes from the heart.”

-J.A. Shedd

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma Bombeck

SMILE FOR YOU

Smiling is infectious; you catch it like the flu,

When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin

When he smiled I realized I’d passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile then I realized its worth.

A single smile, just like mine could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected

Let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

December 2005

12-1 “If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet…you’d best teach it to dance.”

- George Bernard Shaw

12-2 “The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

12-3 “Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?” - USA Today

12-4 “The two best physicians of them all - Dr Laughter and Dr Sleep.” - Gregory Dean Jr.

12-5 "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

12-6 "Your life is only as difficult as you make it." - Professor William McCray

12-7 “Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.”

- Czechoslovakian Proverb

12-8 “Your friend is someone who believes you’re a good egg – even though she knows you’re slightly cracked.”

12-9 “’Silent’ and ‘listen’ are spelled with the same letters.” - Unknown

12-10 "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash

12-11 " The key to solving problems is not through the heart, not by one's schematic mind, nor by a person's points of view; it is through Mathematics!" - Virgin Lions

12-12 “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”  - Napoleon Hill

12-13 “At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year”
-Thomas Tusser

12-14 “Christmas is for children.  But it is for grown-ups too.  Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.”

- Lenora Mattingly Weber

12-15 “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!” 

- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

12-16 “Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.”  - W.J. Cameron

12-17 “A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.”
- Walter Scott

12-18

“Let Christmas not become a thing
Merely of merchant's trafficking,
Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
And surface pleasure, but beneath
The childish glamour, let us find
Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways
Through our teeming human maze,
And help the age of peace to come
From a Dreamer's martyrdom.”
- Madeline Morse

12-19 “Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. “ - Carol Nelson

12-20 “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,

stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? 

It came without ribbons.  It came without tags. 

It came without packages, boxes or bags. 

And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. 

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. 

What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. 

What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” 

- Dr. Seuss

12-21 “A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away.” - Eva Logue

12-22 “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” 

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

12-23 “At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...”
- Edgar Guest

12-24 “Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.”
- Norman W. Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas"

12-25 “For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas.  Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.”

- W.J. Ronald Tucker

12-26 "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.

Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

- Ralph Vaull Starr

12-27 "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.  Full effort is full victory."

- Albert Einstein

12-28 "Today is a lucky day for those who remain cheerful and optimistic"

- Jason Schaefer's fortune cookie

12-29 “Cowboy Up!” - Tuff Hedeman

PRCA and PBR World Champion Bull Rider, President PBR

“’Cowboy Up!”’ is “when you are injured or down and the prospect of doing whatever it is you’re about to try is so bleak that the best you can hope for is to live through it.”

(verb phrase) slang: be tough like a cowboy, especially in unfortunate circumstances

12-30 "There is no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” - Marshall McLuhan

12-31 "If at first you don't succeed...skydiving is not for you."