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June 7, 2009 9:15 pm at 9:15 pm #1084504June 7, 2009 9:16 pm at 9:16 pm #1084505JaxMember
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
— Margaret Fuller
If you have made mistakes…there is always another chance for you…you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
June 7, 2009 9:16 pm at 9:16 pm #1084506JaxMemberwe hit 900 posts! yay!
June 7, 2009 9:25 pm at 9:25 pm #1084507JaxMemberIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
— Glenn Clark
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.
— Jonathan Winters
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
— James Anthony Froude
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
— Mabel Newcomber
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
— Seneca
June 8, 2009 1:35 pm at 1:35 pm #1084508RBleSSingSMemberEarly morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher
June 8, 2009 6:18 pm at 6:18 pm #1084509mepalMemberkapusta, when I become a mod…
Jax, keep it goin’!
June 9, 2009 12:14 am at 12:14 am #1084510an open bookParticipant“??? ?? ?’ ??? ??? ??? ????? ?? ????”
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June 9, 2009 1:55 am at 1:55 am #1084511JaxMemberRBleSSingS: great ones there! & welcome to the CR! join the fun!
mepal: will do!
aob: nice from Mishlay!
June 9, 2009 7:03 am at 7:03 am #1084512JaxMemberAs long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
— Isabelle Holland, The Long Search
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
— Marilyn Mach Vos Savant
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
— Carolyn Coats
Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have.
— Anon
June 9, 2009 7:04 am at 7:04 am #1084513JaxMemberDon’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and your reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
— Belva Davis
Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any.
— Danielle Fotopoulis
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
— Anon
Everyone has the power to make someone happy – Some by simply entering a room, some by quietly leaving it.
— Author Unknown
June 9, 2009 7:05 am at 7:05 am #1084514JaxMemberExperience is a hard teacher… it tests first and teaches after.
— Anon
Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
— Oprah Winfrey
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage… What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom… the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.
— Paula Giddings
June 9, 2009 7:06 am at 7:06 am #1084515JaxMemberI don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
— Diane Ackerman
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
— Lauren Bacall
It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
— Jenny Craig
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
— Karen Clark Kaiser
June 9, 2009 7:07 am at 7:07 am #1084516JaxMemberLimited expectations yield only limited results.
— Susan Laurson Willig
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
— Betty Smith
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
— Marianne Williamson
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
— Marian Wright Edelman
June 9, 2009 7:08 am at 7:08 am #1084517JaxMemberThe price of giving up is always wondering what could have been.
— Anon
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
— Eva Young
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals and you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.
— Rosalynn Carter
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now.
— Joan Baez
June 9, 2009 8:49 pm at 8:49 pm #1084518moish01MemberThere are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
June 10, 2009 3:34 am at 3:34 am #1084531JaxMembermoish: it’s really nice to see ya around here!
Please keep all personal conversation in the General Shmooze thread – General Shmooze-42
June 10, 2009 6:00 am at 6:00 am #1084534JaxMemberA soul that did not suffer would never fully know itself.
— David L. Weatherford
Even when standing in the deepest, darkest valley, one can still see the stars.
— David L. Weatherford
Forgiveness is like exercise. It can be so hard to bring ourselves to do it — but when we do, we often feel rejuvenated, enjoy a sense of self-satisfaction, and ultimately improve our general well-being.
— David L. Weatherford
If you don’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’ve got nothing.
— David L. Weatherford
June 10, 2009 6:01 am at 6:01 am #1084535JaxMemberit was while sinking in the sea of suffering that I learned, hope floats.
— David L. Weatherford
I’m not so much afraid of death as I am of not having lived fully.
— David L. Weatherford
No day is wasted in which I touch another person’s life in any positive, meaningful way. And so it is that I enrich my days by giving something of myself whether through a warm smile, a kind word, a sympathetic ear, a gentle embrace, or a helping hand.
— David L. Weatherford
June 10, 2009 6:02 am at 6:02 am #1084536JaxMemberNo one else can make you happy — you must do that for yourself. But others can make you unhappy. Never give anyone that power over you.
— David L. Weatherford
People need to quit worrying about the aging process, and concentrate on the living process.
— David L. Weatherford
The light of humanity never shines brighter than those moments in which someone reaches into the darkness of another’s suffering to offer comfort.
— David L. Weatherford
Those who can laugh at their own follies are seldom without an amused audience.
— David L. Weatherford
June 10, 2009 6:03 am at 6:03 am #1084537JaxMemberThose who stop to whine every time they step on a pebble will never make it to the top of the mountain.
— David L. Weatherford
Through the haze of hardship and misfortune we often have our clearest vision of just how much we really have.
— David L. Weatherford
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.
We appreciate light because we have been in darkness.
By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sorrow.
— David L. Weatherford
We never stand taller than when we stoop down to help someone who has fallen.
— David L. Weatherford
June 10, 2009 6:06 am at 6:06 am #1084538JaxMemberInspirational
If you have made mistakes…there is always another chance for you…you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
Meaningful
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
— Barbara Bush
Family
Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
— Author Unknown
June 10, 2009 6:06 am at 6:06 am #1084539JaxMemberSummer
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
— James Dent
Farewell
Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.
— Richard Bach
June 10, 2009 6:08 am at 6:08 am #1084540JaxMemberLetting Go
— Author Unknown
I Miss You
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
— Lamartine
Encouraging
Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
— Mary Manin Morrissey
June 10, 2009 6:09 am at 6:09 am #1084541JaxMemberWinnie the Pooh
— Winnie the Pooh
Dr. Seuss
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
— Dr. Seuss
June 10, 2009 6:10 am at 6:10 am #1084542JaxMemberTeen
Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling in the mud with a pig. Sooner or later you figure out that he/she is enjoying it.
— Author Unknown
Scrapbooking
As we reflect on days gone by, we learn that it’s the shared moments and simple pleasures that matter most of all.
— Flavia
Grandmother
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
— Pam Brown
Mod42: we’re back on topic now! 😉
June 10, 2009 6:27 am at 6:27 am #1084543June 11, 2009 7:13 am at 7:13 am #1084545JaxMembertonight’s quotes are in the Graduation category for the CR Queen, Kapusta! `.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
— Brian Tracy
All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.
— Walt Disney
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
— Benjamin Franklin
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
— Paul Freund
June 11, 2009 7:13 am at 7:13 am #1084546JaxMemberDon’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
— Wendy Wasserstein
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.
— Arie Pencovici
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
— Wayne Dyer
Hitch your wagon to a star.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 11, 2009 7:14 am at 7:14 am #1084547JaxMemberI hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
— Author Unknown
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
— William Arthur Ward
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
— e.e. cummings
June 11, 2009 7:15 am at 7:15 am #1084548JaxMemberMy father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
— Jim Fox
Put your future in good hands – your own.
— Author Unknown
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
— Edward Koch
The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.
— Author Unknown
June 11, 2009 7:16 am at 7:16 am #1084549JaxMemberThere is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
— Orrin Hatch
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
— Art Linkletter
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
— Anatole France
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
— Author Unknown
When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
— Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
— Confucius
June 11, 2009 7:18 am at 7:18 am #1084550JaxMemberWherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
— Anthony J. D’Angelo
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
— John Updike
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.
— Author Unknown
kapusta: i hope you enjoyed these!
mods: thank you!
June 11, 2009 2:27 pm at 2:27 pm #1084551June 11, 2009 3:43 pm at 3:43 pm #1084552feivelParticipant“if you take a can of Canfield’s ‘diet chocolate fudge’ soda and add in a little black cherry soda, and chill well, it is REALLY delicious.”
–feivel, June 11, 2009, YWN Coffee Room
June 11, 2009 4:25 pm at 4:25 pm #1084553mepalMemberThats a recipe. Not a quote 😉
June 11, 2009 5:02 pm at 5:02 pm #1084554feivelParticipantthats a comment. not a quote 🙂
June 11, 2009 5:38 pm at 5:38 pm #1084555mepalMemberha.
that’s why I didn’t put it in quotes 🙂
June 12, 2009 6:58 am at 6:58 am #1084556JaxMemberkapusta: your very welcome! glad ya liked them! 😉
June 14, 2009 6:38 am at 6:38 am #1084557JaxMemberConcentration is the secret of strength.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains two descriptions: might have, and should have.
— Louis E. Boone
I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
— George Patton
I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.
— Myrlie Evers
June 14, 2009 6:39 am at 6:39 am #1084558JaxMemberIf you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
— Jennifer James
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
— David Viscott
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
— Corita Kent
June 14, 2009 6:40 am at 6:40 am #1084559JaxMemberMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
— Norman R. Augustine
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
— Thomas Merton
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out ofstumbling blocks.
June 14, 2009 6:42 am at 6:42 am #1084560JaxMemberOnly when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
— Barbara De Angelis
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Confucius
Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.
— Marel Morin
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
June 14, 2009 6:43 am at 6:43 am #1084561JaxMemberThe greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
— Michelangelo
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
— Charles DuBois
The measure of people’s real character is what they would do if they knew they would never be found out.
— J.C. Macauley
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
— e.e. cummings
June 14, 2009 6:44 am at 6:44 am #1084562JaxMemberThe significant problems we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
— Albert Einstein
The real voyage of discovery consists not only in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
— Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.
— David Johnson
June 14, 2009 2:40 pm at 2:40 pm #1084563mepalMemberJax, all great!
June 14, 2009 7:13 pm at 7:13 pm #1084564JaxMembermepal: that you, i will keep em coming then! 🙂
June 15, 2009 6:43 am at 6:43 am #1084565JaxMemberA family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
— Ogden Nash
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
— John Bowring
A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
— Helen Keller
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
— George Moore
June 15, 2009 6:44 am at 6:44 am #1084566JaxMemberAt the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
— Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
— Milton R. Saperstein
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
— Jane Howard
June 15, 2009 6:47 am at 6:47 am #1084567JaxMemberThe first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
— Nelson Boswell
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
— Harold B. Lee
Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.
— Jane Fonda
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
— Emo Philips
June 15, 2009 6:48 am at 6:48 am #1084568JaxMemberRemember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn’t fall there.
— Anonymous
If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.
— Mark Houlahan
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
— William Feather
There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.
— Laura Preble
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