"55 Positive and Wise Thoughts Of The Day"
"He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool. Shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple. Teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep. Wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise. Follow him."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Charl Brits --- South Africa
"If you are politically inclined, you may be President of the United States."
--- Barbara Jordan --- Contributed by Sharon Gray
"See, you don't have to think about the right thing. If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking."
--- Maya Angelou --- Submitted by Anna Paz Arellano --- Canada
"...now as I lay here dying, I think about life."
--- Mick Tomlinson --- Submitted by Amanda Campbell
"Life is like climbing a mountain during a blizzard. You climb and climb, and the wind blows harder and harder. Just when you think you've reached the top, you see another ledge. When you reach the top, the glory is yours, then you realize, you were climbing the wrong mountain."
--- Kevin R. Hutson
"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share, and sought advantage over no one!"
--- Robert Brault --- Contributed by Fran Sawyer --- Florida
" Accidents just don't happen. They happen for a reason. It's up to each of us to figure out what significant positive contributions these accidents have for us."
--- Pete Zafra --- California
"As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere. Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze, seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered. Like a mad one beyond all limits, go where you please and live like a lion, completely free of all fear."
--- Dzogchen Tantra --- Contributed by Gary Harrington --- Michigan
"Doing things right is not as important as doing the right things."
--- Ed Bliss
"A dream was the beginning. A death will be the end. The middle is what you make of it."
--- Barry Lassiter
"Circumstances are only excuses for failures!!"
--- My Dad (Jerry Adams) --- Submitted by Beth Sapp
"Don't let an old negative person creep into your body."
--- Contributed by Beverly T. Glassberg
"Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all he/she has."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Joyce Singleton --- NASA
"You cannot be walked upon unless you are lying on the floor!!"
--- Sent by Jody C. Burnett --- California
"Worry is like a rocking chair; iIt gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Mary deVeaux --- Michigan
"Make the best of your youth, for we get older every minute, and soon it will be gone."
--- Contributed by Michael B.--- New Jersey
"Credulous hope supports our life and always says that tomorrow will be better."
---Tibullus --- Contributed by Jessica McCauley --- Pennsylvania
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
--- William Feather --- Contributed by Gary Harrington --- Michigan
"Bloom where you are planted."
--- Alfred Stuart Jr.
"One's true wealth is in the good one does in the world."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Joyce Singleton
"To be able to experience any kind of success, you must first be willing to fail."
--- Pete Zafra --- California
"One only has to view the fiery sunset into the ocean, feel the cottony soft sand beneath your feet, hear the rhythmic ocean waves breaking on the beach, witness the full golden moon being overtaken in the west, as the sun rises in the stillness of the eastern sky, to appreciate and give thanks for the beauty of nature that blesses our lives and renews the spirit within us."
--- Gary Harrington --- Michigan
"Did you ever noticed that people, who once seemed so big, and took up so much psychological space, seem to shrink as we feel more secure?"
--- Contributed by Hilary Walker
"When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found."
--- Sent in by Jody C. Burnett --- California
"If you have no dreams, then you have no life; for someone else is living it for you."
--- John Seney Jr. --- Canada
"The contacts you establish in life, can at times open doors for you. If you use your knowledge and your ability to know where that knowledge can be the most beneficial to you and your contacts, then you will succeed. You could have several PHD's or know all the right bankers, but if you don't use them you will accomplish nothing. Only you can make yourself succeed."
--- JL Brutz
"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
--- Martin Luther King --- Contributed by The Mc Loughlins --- Ireland
"If you think it's too late,then it probably is. If you think it's not too late,then it's definitely not!"
--- Pete Zafra --- California
"Don't lose heart or lose the thread of what you are trying to achieve."
--- Submitted by Jody C. Burnett --- California
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
--- Harriet Beecher Stowe --- Contributed by L. Modany --- Pennsylvania
"We get frozen in our old visions of ourselves, which means that we can only be what we've been; we don't notice that we are changing."
--- Alene H. Moris --- Contributed by Hilary Walker
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Todd Wielgos
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. "
--- Helen Keller --- Contributed by L. Modany --- Pennsylvania
"What I had, I gave. What I kept, was lost forever."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Blair Anderson
"A life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation, combined with action."
--- M.Scott Peck --- Contributed by Jeff Moore --- England
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."
--- H.L. Mencken --- Contributed by Hilary Walker
"Be the friend that you want to have."
--- Written/Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois
"If you thought about someone as much as they thought about you, where would you be? WITH THEM."
--- Sandy J.H. --- New Jersey
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
--- Marcus Aurelius --- Contributed by Gary Harrington
Michigan
"A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice."
--- Submitted by Jody C. Burnett --- California
THE STARFISH
One day a man was walking along the beach
when he noticed a figure in the distance.
As he got closer he realized the figure was that of a boy
picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean.
Approaching the boy, he asked,
"What are you doing?"
The youth replied, "Throwing starfish in the ocean.
The sun is up and the tide is going out.
If I don't throw them in, they will die."
"Son," the man said,
"Don't you realize
There are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish?
You can't possibly make a difference!"
After listening politely, the boy bent down,
Picked up another starfish,
And threw it into the surf.
Then smiling at the man, he said,
I MADE A DIFFERENCE FOR THAT ONE!
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Amy Yates --- Texas
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets, even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
--- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. --- Sent in by John Merrels
" The larger the mistake, the greater the probability of success on the next attempt!"
--- Rick Swenson
"The things that really count in life are not those one can hold in the hand, but those one cherishes in the heart."
--- Sent in by Jody C. Burnett --- California
"Lo que queremos, es verdaderamente lo que queremos."
English translation:
"What we want, is really what we want."
--- Enrique Sanchez-Rivera --- Connecticut
"My grandfather said that there were two kinds of people; those who did the work and those who took the credit. He said I should always try to be in the first group,because there was much less competition."
--- Indira Gandhi --- Submitted by Cary Gladstone --- New Hampshire
" The last thing we learn is the effect we've had on others."
--- Unknown --- Contributed by Sandi --- Washington, D.C.
"Only he who gives of himself FREELY is truly PRICELESS."
--- Tina Marie Smith --- New Jersey
"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail."
--- Muriel Strode --- Contributed by Jessica Guidobono --- Canada
"Make your life worth living. The very worst experience anyone can have is to sit on that rocking chair, watching the sunset, with nothing but regrets to think about."
--- Pete Zafra --- California
"My ships come in over calm seas."
--- Florence Scovel-Shinn --- Contributed by Cindhi Herd --- California
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
--- John Ruskin --- Contributed by Jessica Guidobono --- Canada
"Take a 20 second time out in the morning and in the afternoon. You have earned it!"
--- Arthur Prevost --- TCU Basketball Coach
" Self-doubt can create a downward spiral that can lead to self-destruction. Avoid self-doubt at all costs!"
--- Pete Zafra --- California
"Sticks and stones will break our bones, but unkind words will break our heart."
--- Contributed by Lynn Bump --- Georgia