"THOUGHTS OF THE DAY" -
" Look around... It's not about making a living, but rather making a life."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michelle Silva --- Virginia
" Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
--- Albert Einstein --- Submitted by Yogesh Shah --- New Jersey
" Do not wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel; stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself."
--- Sara Henderson --- Submitted by C. Craddock --- NSW, Australia
" Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."
--- Morgan Freeman (a line in "The Shawshank Redemption")
--- Submitted by Donald F. --- Pennsylvania
" A love of life is truly reserved for those who demonstrate a life of love."
--- Copyright © 1992 Marc Bond
" Giants are for the kill. They do not need more than a stone and a string. Think simple and conquer your problems."
--- Copyright © 2000 Kenneth Aidelojie
" If you think the world is all wrong remember, it contains people like you."
--- Mahatma Gandhi --- Submitted by Daniel Ward --- Colorado
" Money buys satisfaction but never fulfillment."
--- Copyright © 2000 Cameron Nolan
" If I had my life to live over again, I'd love more, laugh more, learn more, and forgive more. I don't have that choice. You don't have that choice either. Don't make my mistake."
--- Copyright © 2000 Greg Olson
" If I had only... Forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings
And reached out to those around me and smelled the air
And ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations
And heard the rain on the roof
And put my arms around my wife ..
And it's not too late"
--- Hugh Prather --- Submitted by Jerome R. --- Minnesota
" The Truth is Absolute and Absolutely Powerful."
--- Copyright © 1999 Mike Corthell
" No matter where you go, that's where you'll be."
--- 1979 David M. Leininger --- Illinois
" If money is gone, nothing is gone. If time is gone, something is gone. If health is gone, everything is gone."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Amit Koshti --- Maharashtra, India
" If you get too far into it... You're out of it!"
--- Copyright © 1995 Thomas Giammona
" Why do you have to send your 60 year old parent to a home when he/she did not do so when you were 6?"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Carolyn Chia --- Singapore
" Hugging is the ideal gift. Great for any occasion, fun to give and receive, shows you care, comes with its own wrapping and, of course, is fully returnable. Hugging is practically perfect. No batteries to wear out, inflation-proof, non-fattening, no monthly payments, theft-proof and nontaxable."
--- Charles Faraone --- Submitted by Lisa Shucker --- Pennsylvania
" Never say you'll forgive and forget if you cannot let go of what's in the past. When you can look into the other person's eyes and feel the happiness that he/she experiences, then you know that you have truly forgiven and forgotten."
--- Copyright © 2000 Kristie Phan
" Success is a poor, but common, substitute for happiness."
--- Copyright © 2000 Cameron Nolan
" If your feelings are telling you doubts, then listen to them. If you can picture things, be cautious. If something does not feel right, be warned."
--- Copyright © 2000 Lisa R. Frisby
" Worries are no solutions to any problem."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sarath Chandran Mohan --- New Jersey
" Life is not a rehearsal, it is the real thing!"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Marlene Shuetrim --- Sydney, Australia
" I don't know how I missed it, then again I was probably too scared to look."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Matthew Rice --- Pennsylvania
" It is folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Keith Srinivasan --- Victoria, Australia
" It all depends;
Everything in life you have to do for the right reasons, without deceiving yourself or others."
--- Copyright © 2000 Rebecca Jinno
" What consumes your thoughts controls your life."
--- Scott Stapp --- Submitted by Elena Flores --- Indiana
" Magic happens."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sandy Johnston --- Wollongong, Australia
" Time is a gift, not a possession."
--- Copyright © 2000 Cameron Nolan
" That which is different, may in actuality be the same."
--- Copyright © 2000 Ed Magera
" Faith can move mountains, but doubt will create them."
--- Brian McHenry --- Submitted by Kristian Bertelsman
" If there was no tomorrow, how hard would you go today?"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Chris S. --- South Dakota
" There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience."
--- Archibald MacLeish --- Sent in by Kirk Scherz --- Washington
" Why is it that we accept people's food before accepting the people themselves?"
--- My teacher --- Submitted by C.B., Age 11 --- New Jersey
" Frustration Fuels Growth!"
--- Corey H. --- Washington
" Anything made in and with love is never lost or wasted."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by L. R. --- Texas
" Maybe it is better to bend a little than to break altogether."
--- Alyth Johnstone --- Submitted by Alyth M. --- NSW, Australia
" When was the last time someone said "Wow" after interacting with you?"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Annelize Kraounakis --- Gauteng, South Africa
" I was once asked a rhetorical question: What ever happen to that little kid in all of us? I responded by saying: His mom told him it was time for diner, then he got in a little trouble, but he will be back in a little while."
--- Jake Edward --- Submitted by Spencer Q. --- Nebraska
" What you do in life, echoes in eternity."
--- Gladiator (the movie) --- Submitted by C.J. --- North Carolina
--- Correction to quote supplied by Troy Moore --- Michigan --- 12/13/00
" Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
--- George Sheehan --- Submitted by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia
" Things in your life sometimes don't go the way you want them to. You might get what you want and think that that's what will make you happy, but then you are unhappy. People like me, you, all of us, have a time in our lives when we cannot deal with what we are going through. That's where your true friends, the people you can trust, come in. Use them wisely, that is what they are here for, so never hurt your friends because when you really need them, they might not want to be there."
--- Copyright © 2000 Danielle Nicole Cinquanti
" Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
--- Chief Seattle --- Submitted by Stephanie B. --- Tennessee
" I see the past as only a positive challenge to the future."
--- Stevland Morris aka "Stevie Wonder" --- Submitted by Sonja Rideout --- California
" A misty morning doesn't always signify a cloudy day."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jenni Blair --- NSW, Australia
" Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Chrystal Costa --- Maryland
" The biggest lesson I've learned was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything."
--- Eddie Rickenbacker
--- (World War I flying ace, after being adrift in the Pacific ocean for 21 days)
--- Submitted by Jennifer Gokmen --- Istanbul, Turkey
" Men and Women are judged by achievements, not by dreams."
--- David Starr Jordan --- Submitted by M.C. --- North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
A Dozen Things to Do Today
- Remember that some of the world's nicest joys are its most special people, and that you are definitely one of them.
- Take care of that special person.
- Enjoy the ride.
- When the world is too busy, slow it down.
- Climb one rung higher on the ladder to your stars.
- Imagine what the view will look like when you get where you're going.
- Stay in touch with your inner voice; it always speaks the truth.
- When you've been working too hard, give your batteries time to recharge.
- Remember that you are someone who is thought of - with friendship and with love.
- Keep a smile on that wonderful face of yours.
- Have a great day.
- And be happy!
" The past can only remain the past when it doesn't affect the present."
--- Copyright © 2000 Monica-Louise Carrington
" Experience, strength, and hope are cornerstones of early recovery for many. To abandon hope is not to give up, but to live in today, just for today."
--- Copyright © 1999 James Mullins
" Once I did bad, but I heard it ever; twice I did good, but I heard it never."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Girish Sutar --- Maharashtra, India
" To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
--- Confucius --- Submitted by Katy P. --- Minnesota
" Don't try to be something you're not; be something you know you can be."
--- Copyright © 2000 Jammylee Hawkins
" Great people take risks; good people often wish they had taken more."
--- Kelley Passmore --- Submitted by Andrew Gillespie --- Melbourne, Australia
" Let us not be so consumed in our own intellects, that we view us as being the only ones capable of teaching and giving insightful opinions. Less we be the ones who miss out on being taught, that which we might need to learn."
--- Copyright © 2000 Nina BlaiseMarie
" If you go through life trying to make every one else happy, you will be miserable. Make yourself happy and let every one else worry about themselves."
--- Copyright © 1988 G.W. Hart Jr.
" God gave each of us two ears to hear and one mouth to speak. Maybe he meant for us to listen twice as much as we can talk."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Juan Cavallo --- Florida
" Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us live a life worth remembering. Despite the awesome powers of technology many of us still do not live very well. We need to listen to each other's stories once again."
--- Rachel Naomi Remen --- Submitted by Adeline Fallon --- Pennsylvania
" Losers see icy streets, winners put on their skates. Losers let it happen, winners make it happen, and others wonder what happened."
--- Samantha Riley, Australian Swimmer
--- Submitted by Michelle Turner --- Riverwood, Australia
" Learn from nature:
The wind flows over the earth both giving and taking life; the rock and earth are steady and sure. Water takes many shapes and is both soft and invulnerable and fire is greedy and consumes all who are unprepared."
--- Copyright © 1999 Lem D. Absher
" Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy."
--- Martha Beck --- Submitted by Amber Moore --- Missouri
" Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Lauren P. --- Illinois
" Don't stay in the past, it'll hurt in the future."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by A.S. --- Florida
" Regrets are letters to be send out, not a sympathetic thing to keep in our hearts, not something we voice out and scream all the things inside, just to feel the importance of the events in our life."
--- Copyright © 2000 Rowel Nuestro
" The miseries and struggles of life are like the fire. It will only burn the false but will render the truth brighter & brighter."
--- Copyright © 2000 T.W.Hamdy
" I learned there are troubles
Of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!"
--- Dr. Seuss --- Submitted by Heather A. --- Ohio
" It is not necessary that things will happen as we expect, it might happen against our expectations too, especially when it is least expected."
--- Copyright © 2000 Ashraf Ali
" If you are always afraid to fail, you will always fail to succeed."
--- Copyright © 2000 Sean Pastuch
" The second kick from a jackass is of no educational value."
--- Old Southern saying --- Submitted by Cooper Magli --- Tennessee
" If the intention behind a kind act is merely acceptance from those around you, it is no longer an act of kindness."
--- Copyright © 2000 Erin Slocum
" Experience is the only thing in life where the test comes before the lesson."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Murtaza Merali --- Mombasa, Kenya
" Misery stays as long as it's welcome."
--- Copyright © 1999 Mary Ann Herman
" The great tragedy in life is not death... it's what dies inside of you while you're living."
--- Gary Buse --- Submitted by Dorothy Wire --- Indiana
" Stop having a job, and start having a life!"
--- Copyright © 1998 Kirk Weisler
" Always apologize first; especially when you are right."
--- Lemuel Dillard Meadows --- Submitted by Lem Absher --- Tennessee
" If there were a mile-high mountain of granite, and once every ten thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, only a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dorothy Wire --- Indiana
" Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by J. Klein --- Maryland
" Excuses only satisfy the person making them."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Brian Begley --- Kentucky
" In a solid friendship, it's difficult to burn bridges. But it does not take a major fire to weaken it's structure and integrity."
--- Copyright © 2000 Chris Craig
" Love thy mother, for one day she may not be there to caress the door you slam shut in anger."
--- Copyright © 2000 Sunny Khan
" People believe that only money can bring you happiness but I believe family and friends are what truly make me happy. For when you die, money will never substitute for memories spent with loved ones."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by C.R. --- California
" Everyday is a good day, some are just better than others!"
--- My Dad --- Submitted by Richard Strader --- Illinois
" It's the things that hurt the most at the time, that make you the strongest in the end."
--- RLC --- Iowa
A Has Been
I'd like to be a could be
If I could not be an are
For a could be is a may be
With a chance of touching par
I'd rather be a has been
Than a might have been by far
For a might have been has never been
But a has been was an are!
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Paul Christenson --- Illinois
" Prosperity does not come by geographical location, but by strategic positioning."
--- Copyright © 1998 Andrew Eweka
" Be careful; for what you ask for you might just get."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dody Mealey --- Iowa
" Only through history can we learn not to make yesterday's mistakes tomorrow."
--- Copyright © 1996 Brad Sutton
" Man's comprehension between fact and fiction, sometimes causes us to lose what is most important."
--- Copyright © 2000 Danielle Williams
" People who never get carried away should be."
--- Copyright © 2000 Danielle Whitney
" He came into my life through a tear and will live in my life like a smile."
--- Copyright © 2000 Sonal Kapadia
" Everyone on this planet would probably want to seek out the person who has the same problems as they do,and ask that person how to get through them....but won't that person be asking you the same thing?"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Tyler P. --- Saskatchewan, Canada
" I would rather wear out in this life doing good; than to rust out doing nothing."
--- Copyright © 1973 Lacy Steele
" The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want right now."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Saralyn Stone --- Texas
" To deal with what's going on inside, look at what's around outside."
--- Copyright © 1999 Kenneth Wallace
" We cannot trust others until we learn to trust ourselves."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Danielle Iwanyszyn --- Pennsylvania
" Limits limit."
--- Copyright © 1998 Patrick Harris
" Be all that you envy."
--- Raine Maida --- Submitted by S. Wilson --- Ontario, Canada
" A job worth doing is worth doing right."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Stacy I. --- Louisiana
" One of the remedies for stress is desserts. Why? Because STRESSED spelled backwards is DESSERTS."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Kirk Scherz --- Washington
" Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Submitted by Jaime Becker --- California
" A bulldog can whip a skunk, but it's not worth it."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by C. Dunn --- Kentucky
" Man plans and God laughs!"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ian Ross --- England, United Kingdom
" Ditch diggers are the only people that start at the top."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Randy Blumhagen --- California
" Sometimes you have to look reality in the face...and deny it."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Wendy M. --- California
" A person's opposition to a subject or issue is in direct proportion to his/her ignorance of it."
--- Copyright © 1985 Everette Bowie
" Don't forget to read the words between the lines. They may say more then the words in bold print."
--- Copyright © 2000 Carol Sartain
" The challenge in this world of being someone else is to be yourself."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Jeremy Cheong --- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
" Remember you've got one body, respect it. One mind, feed it.
And one life, so enjoy it."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ace R. --- Ontario, Canada
" The most intolerable act is the acknowledgment of one's ignorance and the unwillingness to change."
--- Copyright © 2000 Michael Allen Johnson
" You have to take life as it comes to you. You can just mold the way you look at it."
--- Copyright © 2000 Sachin Dutta