Thought for the day...

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   Inspirepubposted 15 years ago

   "You are never given a dream, without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach

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      ripplemakerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      hi Jenny, love his quotes..this one too! 

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   Lady Guinevereposted 15 years ago

   Teach others how you want them to treat you---------and do be patient about it.

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   terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

   There is a good way and a bad way to percieve things.
   
   How do we want to precieve things?
   
   *smiles*

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   docbendukeposted 15 years ago

   Miracle is what hapens when opportunity meets preparation..Thus:we must always get prepared all the time..
   Thanks

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   terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

   "Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon"
   
                                                          ~ Dalai Lama ~

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   B.T. Evilpantsposted 15 years ago

   "Paddle faster, I hear banjos."
   Ned Beatty

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   spryteposted 15 years ago

   Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain

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      B.T. Evilpantsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis- Douglas Adams

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         spryteposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.
         Michael O'Donoghue

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         quicksandposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         As a kid I used to wonder if "cat" could be dismantled to check out the mechanism contained within, to see how it works. One thing that prevented me from doing so was that I would not have been able to put it back right. Another thing was, I did not want to mess the "wrapping." The manufacturer had done an excellent job!

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   Uninvited Writerposted 15 years ago

   I tawt I taw a puddytat -- Tweetybird

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   jimmythejockposted 15 years ago

   "Smile and the world smiles with you, Fart and the world backs away". jimmythejock 2008

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    rmrposted 15 years ago

    "They're not laughing AT you, honey. They're laughing with you" ~My mom

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    Marian Swiftposted 15 years ago

    We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. (Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher,1864-1936)
    
    Easier said than done, but well worth the effort.

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    sandra rinckposted 15 years ago

    A woman goes to the market and buys a bushel of avocados. 
    When she gets home she decides she would like to eat one.
    
    So she looks in her bag and picks out the one that looks the best.
    She cuts one open and removes the seed adds a sprinkle of salt and eats it.
    
    She is delighted because this avocado was the best she had ever tasted.
    So she decides she would like another one.
    
    So she looks in her bag and picks out the one that looks the best.
    She cuts it open to remove the seed and notices that the seed looks discolored.
    
    She studies it, looks over the meat of the avocado, it looks good and it smells good, and it came from the same batch.
    
    So she sprinkles some salt on it and takes a bite.
    She makes a funny face and spits it out because it tasted awful.
    
    The moral of the story is, just because it looks good, smells good, and comes from the same tree doesn't mean it is.  lol ;P

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    SparklingJewelposted 15 years ago

    Reading maketh a full person, conference a ready person and writing an exact person.
    
    ---Francis Bacon  (he actually said man, instead of person, but I wanted to be more exact!)

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    docbendukeposted 15 years ago

    Do not laugh because people are laughing.You must try to find out wat is amusing them before you join them because you may be surprised that they may be laughing at your stupidity...Thanks

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconcieved notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
    
                                                                                                         ~ Thomas H. Huxley ~

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    sandra rinckposted 15 years ago

    never say that you are smart so you never have to eat your words. 

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same."
                     
                       
                                                                                                           ~ Francesca Reigler ~

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    daflaposted 15 years ago

    My own personal favorite:
    
    "I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard isn't what I meant"

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy, on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."
    
                                                                                                                ~ Earl Nightingale ~

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "You don't get to choose how you are going to die. Or when.
    You can only decide how you are going to live now."
    
                                                                           ~ Joan Baez ~

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."
    
                                                                                                  ~ Henry Van Dyke ~

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    Rochelle Frankposted 15 years ago

    Wow, Terence, it seems tyou have taken these to heart-- especially the last one. Charming.

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    Rochelle Frankposted 15 years ago

    One from Ben Franklin-- especially for writers:
    "If you would not be forgotten
    As soon as you are dead and rotten,
    Either write things worthy reading,
    Or do things worth the writing."

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       Shirley Andersonposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I love this quote.  I've never read this one before.  Thanks for this, Rochelle.

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    maestrowhitposted 15 years ago

    When body and mind unite completely, thinking becomes a physical act.

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    SparklingJewelposted 15 years ago

    “With freedom comes responsibility. Those who would have self-government must, by definition, govern themselves. Self-government only works when people act responsibly and fulfill their obligations. When people abuse these freedoms to enrich themselves at the expense of others, then the public will demand the government to step in. That is how government grows, and how freedom is diminished."
         --- don't know who ? but I am sure it has been said many times through the years

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    docbendukeposted 15 years ago

    Intergrity is doing exactly what you say you can do...

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    “Fear less, hope more;
    Eat less, chew more;
    Whine less, breathe more;
    Talk less, say more;
    Love more, and all good things will be yours”
    
                                         ~ Swedish Proverb ~

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    Bonnie Ramseyposted 15 years ago

    The poor man is not he who is without a CENT but he who is without a DREAM! - Harry Kemp

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    vitaebposted 15 years ago

    "If the brain were simpler we'd be able to understand it, but then we'd be too simple to know what we understood."

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "Whenever I share my joy with another
    ... my joy is doubled.
    Whenever I share my sorrow with another
    ... my sorrow is halved."
    
                                    ~ Swedish Proverb ~

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    Success
    
    To laugh often and love much,
    to win the respect of intelligent persons
    and the affection of children;
    to earn the approbation of honest critics;
    to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self;
    to know even one life has breathed easier because
    you have lived --- that is to have succeeded.
    
    
                                           ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick ~

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    Hope Alexanderposted 15 years ago

    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    
    -Robert Frost
    
    
    
    As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday, and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. (Fred Dales at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA)

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    Christoph Reillyposted 15 years ago

    Here's to my friend.
    May your casket be made from a 100 year old oak tree...
    Which I shall plant in the morning.
    
    Irish Toast

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       quicksandposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       You are limiting one's lifespan to just a hundred extra years!

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "Health is the greatest gift,
    contentment the greatest wealth,
    faithfulness the best relationship."
    
    
                                      ~ Buddha ~

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "Strength does not come from physical capacity.
    It comes from an indomitable will."
    
                                               ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

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    SparklingJewelposted 15 years ago

    "How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly, on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul reveals itself in the voice only."
    
                                --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
    
                                                              ~ Burton Hills ~

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    Bertrand Russell - The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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    jyuvaposted 15 years ago

    Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
                                             give him power.
    
                                       --Abraham Lincoin--

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    akinloluposted 15 years ago

    when you wanna do something you must know that start with what you have now, cos what you have now was what you hoped for before.

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    RBalanposted 15 years ago

    Think Good
    Do  Good
    Rest all will be Good

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    akinloluposted 15 years ago

    People always wanna stay in there comfort zone, becoming very defensive and never offensive. These kind of people are always on the average.

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
    
                                                                                                                          ~ Lao Tzu ~

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    Benson Yeungposted 15 years ago

    It is a physician's privilege to have death as a visitor once every few days to remind me to live for today as tomorrow may never come.

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
    
                                                     ~ Confucius ~

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on; nor all thy Piety nor Wit
      Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
    
    - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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    profilerposted 15 years ago

    All our moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    “When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have”
    
                                                                                          ~ Professor Stephen Hawkings ~

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    “If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”
    
                                                                                                   ~ T. Alan Armstrong ~

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    "And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way."
    
                                                                                                         ~ Albert Einstein ~

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