"93 Wise Thoughts of the Day"

"Love all, Hate none. Live, Let live. Don't suffer, enjoy. The bottom line is we all die, so why waste your time being upset? Enjoy life to the fullest extent, which translates into; Love all, Hate none. The next time anyone angers you, thank them for helping you to become a better person. The world will soon begin to realize that being upset allows us the chance to learn."
--- Written by my 17year-old son --- Sent in by Nancy Bee

"If your love is blind, thank God all your faults can't be seen. My wife is blind."
--- George Campos

"To a child, love is spelled TIME."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.B. --- Florida

"Star light, star bright, you are the star I see at night
You fill my head with thoughts and dreams
Forever in my heart you'll be
You pick me up when I am down
And lift my spirits to higher grounds
So as I wish to the stars above
My wish to you is all my love"
--- Copyright © 2000 Rhonda Hittinger

"Do not gaze into your own soul, unless you are willing to confront that which you find there."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Richard Grubb --- Ohio

"A woman of genius makes no mistakes. Her errors are potholes of discovery."
--- Copyright © 2000 Cassandra Zenzo Ncube

"If you don't REALLY want to know - don't ask!! And if I ask, then YES, I want the truth !!"
--- Michelle B. --- Kansas

"Just say what you mean and mean what you say."
--- Sarah Henderson --- Submitted by Wyatt Frazer --- Australia

"If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Paolo Dee --- Australia

"I talk straight from my heart, so it sometimes bypasses my brain."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by M Vancleve --- Kentucky

Keys to the Universe
"If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, there is some bad news and some good news. The bad news is, there is no key to the Universe. The good news is, it has been left unlocked."
--- Anonymous --- Sent in by Patricia Love --- California

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."
--- Vesta M. Kelly --- Submitted by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida

"Love lives. War dies."
--- Copyright © 2000 Shannon Anthony Borland

"When the 'E' in EGO enters into a MAN, he becomes MEAN."
--- Copyright © 1999 Nabeel Alvi --- Karachi, Pakistan

"Be kind to your enemies... you made them!"
--- Found in a church bulletin --- Sent in by L.B. --- Iowa

"If you fail to prepare, you must prepare to fail."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Emma Morris --- UK

"A child's mental health is merely the reactions of the adults around him."
--- Copyright © 2000 Michelle Strachen

"There is not such thing as a free lunch."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Adam B., Age 17 --- Missouri

"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment."
--- Malcolm Hein --- Sent in by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia

"If someone says that you are pretty, thank your parents and God. If someone says that you are nice, accept it as a compliment."
--- Copyright © 1993 Alicia Paradise --- South Carolina

"We are shaped by our thoughts; We become what we think. When the mind is pure; joy follows, like a shadow that never leaves."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Sharon Ogden --- Kentucky

"A friend is not a fellow
Who is taken in by sham
A friend is one who knows our faults
And doesn't give a damn."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Tom Denny --- West Virginia
--- This is a quote (poem) that was on my mother's desk when I was a pre-teen.
--- I'm 73 now.

"Knowledge is learned; common Sense is earned."
--- Copyright © 1999 Ignacio Rincon --- California

"Hearts are easily broken, so don't be a bull in a china shop."
--- Copyright © 2000 Robert Meyers --- Arizona

"Firm ground is the first step on a ladder."
--- Copyright © 2000 Nikola Petrovic --- Slovenia

"One of the pleasing things in life is when someone looks at you and smiles as they walk by."
--- Istvan M. --- Arizona

"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by W.M. --- Arizona

"I would prefer to die standing on my feet than to live a lifetime on my knees."
--- Emiliano Zapata --- Submitted by Manuel Carmona --- California

"The most successful people are those who do nothing. They achieve it every time."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ephraim Makwatse --- South Africa

"I imagine one reason people cling so stubbornly to hate is because once the hate is gone, they are forced to deal with the pain."
--- James Baldwin --- Sent in by Michelle Gorham --- California

"Be careful what you pretend to be because in the end, you are what you pretend to be!"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michelle Cox --- Massachusetts

"People come into your life and leave, but the only people who stay are your family members."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Karyn N. --- California

"I'd rather spend ten years at diplomacy; than one week at war."
--- Copyright © 2000 Bren Lee --- California

"Friends are the bacon bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Tracy Jones --- Arizona

"Life is half spent before one knows what Life is."
--- French Proverb --- Sent in by Gurudath --- India

"A person is not known by the company he keeps, but by the company he thinks no one knows he's keeping."
--- Anonymous --- Sent in by Fawaz Rasheed --- Illinois

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other man to die."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by JP --- Michigan

"It's much easier to face adversity when our backs are not turned to it."
--- Copyright © 2000 Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky

"Many people are uncomfortable with periods of change and transition; we often think that endings equal death but there is no death with beautiful rebirth."
--- Anonymous --- Sent in by Jennifer Prugh --- Pennsylvania

"In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing."
--- Steve Jobs --- Sent in by Jennifer Yontz --- Florida

"The reason most goals are never met, is because so few are ever set! Set many --- increase your odds!"
--- Copyright © 1999 Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
--- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Sent in by Kirk Scherz --- Washington

"The beauty of tomorrow is that you have today to create it."
--- Timon (Efthymios) Roussis --- Tennessee

"We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those who were changed forever..."
--- On wall of the Oklahoma City National Memorial
--- Sent in by Amanda C., Age 15 --- Oklahoma

"Man is the product of his own thoughts."
--- Lex Vcelar --- South Africa

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Sent in by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia

"Children will do what you say until they are 16... then... they do what you do."
--- Copyright © 2000 Ken Purdy --- Canada

"Pain is information. If you are experiencing depression, grief, and stress, maybe there are some issues in your life that need some love, action, self-esteem and faith. Denial and procrastination will rob you of peace of mind and progress."
--- Copyright © 1999 Jewel Diamond Taylor --- California

Each One A Honeymoon
While looking at honeymoon pictures,
On the beach walking hand in hand;
Not knowing what the years would hold,
No cares with our feet in the sand.

The day we watched the sea gulls soar,
That night we fished the sea.
Stars above, unquestioned love,
Life was new for both you and me.

And I recall as we sat in the booth,
Enjoying conversations and times untold;
Driving the island in that red jeep,
As Stevie Wonder sang his song "Stay Gold..."

Memories etched in our newly-wed minds,
I still remember them as I know you do;
And I wouldn't change a thing from then,
Our first kiss or first "I love you..."

I re-visit that time, the place and you,
It seems it came and left too soon;
But I recognize that each day you're near,
You make each one a honeymoon.
--- Copyright © 2000 Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky

"When you knew better, you did better."
--- Oprah Winfrey --- Submitted by Jacki Trexler

"The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
--- Albert Einstein --- Sent in by Brent Latam --- Canada

"What should not be heard by little ears, should not be said by big mouths."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Kirk Scherz --- Washington

"Anger is a choice, as is love. I'll choose the one that feels better, thank you very much!"
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Catherine Dobbie

"Indifference wounds more deeply then angry words... and coldness can freeze even the most loving heart."
--- Copyright © 1999 Stacey Charter --- Pennsylvania

"Nice guys may finish last, but at least they don't have to restart the race."
--- Christine M. --- Sent in by B. Smith, Age 19 --- New Jersey

"Since the world as we experience it is a place of process, of change, of becoming, of growth and decay, the contrary notions that what is actual or fully real is beyond change leads to a devaluation of life in the world."
--- Cobb and Griffin --- Sent in by Alvaro Carrizosa --- United Kingdom

"I don't know what kind of future life I believe in, but I believe that all we go through here must have some value."
--- Eleanor Roosevelt --- Sent in by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia

"Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say them before they go."
--- Anonymous --- Submitted by Charity --- Singapore

"To want is to win. To win is to want. Do you want to win?"
--- Erica N. --- Maine

"Life is an opportunity, not an obligation."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Teresa Meyer --- Western Australia

"We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, why did this happen to me? Unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Serene Yang --- Malaysia

"It sometimes seems to me that it is better to go in with your eyes closed, this way you are not afraid to start."
--- A.Sewell

"My mother used to say to me 'Elwood, in this life you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant'. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."
--- James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey"
--- Sent in Anonymously from the UK

THE FIVE FREEDOMS:
The freedom to see and hear what is here, instead of what "should" be, was, or will be.

The freedom to say what you feel and think, instead of what you "should" feel and think.

The freedom to feel what you feel, instead of what you "ought" to feel.

The freedom to ask for what you want, instead of always waiting for permission.

The freedom to take risks on your own behalf, instead of choosing to be only "secure".
--- Virginia Satir --- Sent in by Neill McRae --- Australia
--- Author Name Provided 06/23/11 by Lorraine K.

"Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Dan McCullor --- Colorado

"Live to happen; don't happen to live"
--- Sent in by Mickey --- New Zealand

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."
--- Francis Duc de la Rochefoucauld --- Sent in by Gary Harrington --- Michigan

"A failure is not someone who tries and fails, but someone who fails to try."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Annie B.--- New Mexico

"Look at it, size it up, but don't postpone your life just because you can't make up your mind."
--- General Omar Bradley, Former Chief of Staff, U.S Army
--- Sent in by Rachel Ganslaw, Washington, D.C.

"We didn't inherit the Earth from our parents; we're borrowing it from our children."
--- Chief Seattle (Suquamish/ Duwamish chief)
--- Sent in by Chris Deines --- Florida

"Worry not that your children are not listening to you, worry more that they are watching you."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Alissa Wooldridge --- Australia

"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone; but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Katie Tiemeier --- Iowa

"Everyone has convictions, until they're free."
--- Seth Stattmiller --- Sent in by Roger Grisim

"What if you slept, and in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven? And there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?"
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Prue --- Australia

"Reputation is not something you do, but something you achieve 365 days a year."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Joanie Jenson --- Idaho

"What I had I gave, what I still have is gone forever."
--- Doug Eblan --- Sent in by Curt Schneider --- Michigan

"When you have a brush with death, you realize time is short. Time is money, but money is not time. Money cannot buy time. Suddenly you've learned what you want to do and will do so that your life will not be regrettable."
--- AZLL --- Singapore

"It's easier to fly if you take things lightly."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Megan Brooks --- Pennsylvania

"It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything."
--- Joyce Cary, British author (1888-1957)
--- Sent in by Martha Varzaly --- Pennsylvania

"Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos."
--- Cullen Hightower --- Sent in by Leslie Harris --- Utah

"Hands are for loving.
Hands are for loving.
Hands are not for pushing and shoving."
--- Sent in by Gabrielle G, Age 6 --- from song she heard in school

"You can never be a General unless you spend your time in the trenches."
--- Matt --- Florida

"Since everything is but an apparition
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection,
One may well burst into laughter."
--- Longchenpa --- Sent in by Christa French --- Oregon on the way to California

"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Maren Misner --- Minnesota

"Don't be a problem-maker; be a problem-solver."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by David Gussin --- New York

"On the way to 2000...
I did not "hoard" away food, gasoline, water or ammunition. Instead I packed my "get-a-way" bag with something I hold more necessary for survival. I loaded up my soul with the love of all those I hold dear to me. I locked their images deep inside my heart. I say "images" because on New years Eve I was unable to be with most of the ones I love the most."

I traveled by e-mail to New Zealand when it was before noon in the USA Dec. 31, 1999... there it was already 2000. I felt that I had traveled into the future. With me I took and brought back Love, Hope, Faith, and Inspiration. What more could I ask for! I had a magical glimpse of 2000 and it looked wonderful to me.
--- Copyright © 1999 Corky Ferguson --- Ohio

"Here we are at the beginning of a new century. While the alarmists warn of a commuter meltdown, I prefer to meditate on the natural world. The stars will still sparkle, the sun will warm. The trees will stay rooted, and the squirrels will continue to forget where they buried their nuts. Robert Browning said it more eloquently: 'The year's at the spring, And the days's at the morn; The lark's on the wing: The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven; All's right with the world.' "
--- From my Master Gardener friend --- Sent in by Martha Varzaly --- Pennsylvania

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work."
--- Mark Twain --- Sent in by Joe Perez --- Texas

"How can you hit the target, if you can't see it?"
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Fred Parrocha --- California

STRIVING TO BE A MAN
I wish I were big enough honestly to admit all my shortcomings;
Brilliant enough to accept flattery without it making me arrogant;
Tall enough to tower above deceit;
Strong enough to treasure love;
Brave enough to welcome criticism;
Compassionate enough to understand human frailties;
Wise enough to recognize my mistakes;
Humble enough to appreciate greatness;
Staunch enough to stand by my friends;
Humble enough to be thoughtful of my neighbor;
And righteous enough to be devoted to the love of God.
--- Gordon H. Taggart --- Sent in by Natarajan Dakshinamurthy --- Oregon

"In life, people are like cookies put into an oven. Some get "burnt" while others come out just right. Let's just hope you are the one with the frosting and sprinkles."
--- Ellen --- Iowa

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