"74 Thoughts To Keep You Thinking"
"The classic example of tactless humanity, I'm disappointed to declare, is the abrasive Christian who feels it is his or her calling to fight for the truth with little or no regard for the other fellow's feelings. His favorite plan of attack is either to overlook or strongly demand, and the backwash is a back alley strewn with the litter of broken hearts and bitter souls. Let's be gentle and sensitive when we are touching the tender feelings of others."
Charles R. Swindoll --- Submitted by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia
"Common sense is not so common."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Wayne Crouch --- Texas
"Follow your heart. There are no rules."
--- Robin Williams --- Sent in by Meghann Mason --- Texas
"Love mends a broken heart in the softest of ways and the gentlest of manner. A heart healed by love bears no scars for life! The next time you see a broken heart stop by and apply a little love to it... You will never regret it my friend!"
--- Dr. Nirvikar Dahiya --- India
The Difference between Manager and a Leader
- Manager administers
Leader innovates and duplicates - Manager is a copy
Leader is original - Manager maintains things
Leader develops - Manager focuses on system and structure
Leader on people - Manager relies on control
Leader on trust - Manager has short term view
Leader has long term perspective - Manager knows how and when?
Leader knows what and why? - Manager keeps his eyes on bottom line
Leader keeps his eyes on horizon - Manager imitates
Leader originates - Manager accepts status
Leader challenges status - Manager is a soldier
Leader is own person - Manager does right things right
Leader does right things
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
--- Ursula K. LeGuin --- Sent in by Sue --- Australia
"We must either find a way or make one."
--- Hannibal --- Sent in by Rob Weeks --- California
"The light and love that is within me, acknowledges the light and love that is within you. When we experience this connection, then we will truly connect to the ONENESS we ALL share."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Garry Hansford --- Australia
"True friends accept the fact that you changed and love you anyway."
--- Mandy, Age 19 --- Michigan
"Don't go backwards, you've already been there."
--- Ray Charles --- Sent in by Jason Engel --- Kentucky
"That twinge of anxiety and possible dread prior to the beginning of the work week need not ruin our Sundays. Keep praying about and pushing towards that career or job wherein your talents will be most utilized. Working in an area that you most enjoy and effect will reduce anxiety, likely increase your financial where with all, and most importantly, take the dread out of those Sundays we will never be able to re-live!"
--- Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
"A real friend is like a diamond, we should always learn to treasure them. Not so real friends are like cubic zircons, they can fool even the best of us."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Casey Chateauneuf --- Canada
"The way some people find fault you would think there was a reward."
--- Cassandra Zenzo Ncube --- Zimbabwe
"Remember four simple words: live, love, laugh, bloom."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Stela Plaku --- New York
"The horizon is nothing more than the restriction of our own vision."
--- Source Unknown --- Sent in by Teresa Meyer --- Western Australia
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Angelica Leigh ---Missouri
"Life is like a coin, you may spend it anyway you wish, but you may only spend it once."
--- Robert Garth NMSU Football player --- Submitted by Jon Cook --- Michigan
"There is one time in your life when you will have the strongest feeling of regret and the most willingness to change all the wrongs in your life. You will want to mend all your fences and tell the important people that they really mattered, unfortunately that moment will probably be the last few minutes before death...so do it now!!"
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Andy van Dijk
"People change and forget to tell each other."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Laura --- Kansas
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
--- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --- Sent in by Wayne Hebb --- Canada
"Your opinion of me is not as important as mine is."
--- Fidelis Mnkandla --- Zimbabwe
"When faced with what you consider a problem or dilemma in your life, ask yourself these two questions: In the grand scheme of life, does this have any effect on the outcome? Will people live or die based on the decisions I make about this? If the answer to these questions is NO, then quickly deal with the problem and LET IT GO! Why waste your time and energy on something that is nothing more than a speck of dust on a pinhead in the universe of your life? The only thing you get by 'sweating the petty stuff' is a wet shirt."
--- Stacey Charter
"I want to learn to live each moment and be grateful for what it brings, asking no more."
--- Gloria Gaither --- Sent in by Teresa Meyer --- Western Australia
"If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."
--- Molly Ivins --- Sent in by Jen --- Illinois
--- Author's name supplied by Ken Baird 5/3/99
"Dead fish go with the flow, but I'm not dead yet."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jessica --- Oklahoma
"Every generation gets their chance, the Internet is ours."
--- Markus Eberli --- Switzerland
"In the absence of a reason, Life loses the mystery it generates."
--- Dr. Nirvikar Dahiya --- India
"Knowledge is one thing that does not become second hand, when used."
--- Unknown --- Submitted by Tracey Robinson
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
--- Walter Winchell --- Sent in by Laura --- Kansas
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day!"
--- Emily Dickinson --- Sent in by Teresa Meyer --- Western Australia
"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price we all must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."
--- Vince Lombardi submitted by Maegen Mac --- Michigan
"Compliment often that person who is currently unable or unwilling to be complimentary towards others. Without fail, within a month, you will hear him or her say something complimentary."
--- Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
"To achieve positive results, think and talk only of positive."
--- Bruce H. Liu --- California
"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."
--- Henry Boye --- Sent in by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia
"To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like."
--- Charlotte Joko Beck --- Sent in by Jeremy Walker --- Michigan
" Sometimes in a relationship, going through hell isn't that bad, if you come out a little stronger. I guess its the same about friends."
--- Unknown --- Lindsey Brooks --- Mississippi
"If the truth causes an offense, it is better an offense be caused than the truth be denied."
--- Cassandra Zenzo Ncube --- Zimbabwe
"Justice is what we get when the decision is in our favor."
--- John W. Raper --- Sent in by Sandy Stump --- North Carolina
"What really matters is what no one can see."
--- Tyler Jacobson --- Submitted by Maegen Mac --- Michigan
" Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understanding; and he is the truest philosopher who can forget himself."
--- William Hazlitt --- Sent in by Jeremy Walker --- Michigan
"Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Becky Volpe --- California
"What do you need to be the best? Confidence, Concentration, and Preparation!"
--- Lenny Dykstra --- Submitted by Maegen Mac --- Michigan
"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."
--- H. L. Mencken --- Sent in by Amit P. Shirodkar --- India
"If you always tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything. You only need a short memory!"
--- Jannie Putter --- South Africa
"When the law of an eye for an eye operates, all the people will end up blind."
--- Bishop Desmond Tutu --- Sent in by Harland Schuster --- Kansas
"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature."
--- William Rostler --- Sent in by Ron Obringer --- Pennsylvania
"I have found that most people want to go to Heaven, but very few of them are willing to meet the requirements to get there."
--- David Sees --- Florida
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
--- Edmund Burke, English Barrister --- Sent in by John O'Neill --- Texas
"I must study War and Politics, so my children may study Science and Engineering, so their children may study Literature and Music."
--- John Adams --- Submitted by Tony DePasqual --- Michigan
"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything."
--- Allyson Jones --- Sent in by Tracey Robinson
"We are surrounded by visionaries sacrificed on the altar of tradition."
--- Chip Darius
"Experience is always the hardest teacher, because you take the test before you learn your lesson."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Jennifer Lemieux --- Canada
"The way you make your entrance into any business, project, idea, job, relationship, is going to determine the way you exit: So the way you enter determines the way you exit."
--- Pat Paradowski --- New Jersey
"At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."
--- SRW
"Live deeply and suck the marrow out of life."
--- Anonymous --- Hong Kong
"Breaking up maybe hard to do, but moving on is often harder."
--- P.M.F., Age 18 --- Washington
As I was walking past a store
I saw a sign hanging on the door
The sign, it said, both bright and clear
That help was wanted, needed here
I thought about help in many ways
As I have seen it in my days
I remember help as when you cry
And someone wipes the tears from your eyes
Or when you suddenly slip or fall
And someone picks you up, yes I recall
Or when your life is at a low
And someone makes you laugh, I know
Or when you think you may go crazy
From staying home or being lazy
And the sparkle you find in someone's eye
Makes you want to get up and try
But here it was clear that in this way
Help was wanted for more than one day
They wanted help to run the store
So they hung the sign out on the door
--- Copyright © Erica Lynn Dager --- New Jersey
"There are some who limp, but very few out of choice. The majority have a reason. Before we criticize them, we should try on their shoes. It might give us an education that a university cannot provide - a feeling that a sermon could not invoke. The critic would be more tolerant of another's limp, if he had to wear, for a little while, those nail-piercing shoes the other fellow has to wear all the time. What a change in tone and pace, if society were to swap shoes. Faces which now smile would have tears."
--- Mike Harrison
"The power of vested interests, shall yield to the gradual encroachment of ideas."
--- JM Keynes --- Sent in by Tony DePasqual --- Michigan
"There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by."
--- George Merideth --- Sent in by Toni Palmer --- England
"The challenges of life are like the eye of a storm. There is turbulence as you move towards the eye of the storm, but the reward is the calm you find inside. You cannot stay inside of one storm forever. There will be other storms to enter; other rewards of calm. To enjoy the calm of the storms you will face, you must endure the turbulence of the storms."
--- Derrick Jordan --- Florida
"Triumph is just a little umph added to try."
--- Earl Nightingale --- Sent in by Sean Swisshelm
" Nothing lasts forever-not even our troubles."
Arnold H. Glasow --- Sent in by Annice LeGrande --- Maryland
"Your words are continually educating others around you. Let them create a portrait of enthusiasm and faith."
--- Terry Hogenson --- Elementary School Principal --- Iowa
"Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Kevin M. Clear --- Ohio
"The gravity of the situation is inversely proportional to your sense of humor."
--- Chris White --- Colorado
"The most important quality in a person... honesty above all else. How can we grow to be better people if we are always being told that we are great already?"
--- Chris --- Arizona
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
--- Mark Twain --- Sent in by Lina
"I felt sorry for myself for I had no coat, then I met a man with no arms. I was sad that I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet."
--- Unknown --- Harland Schuster --- Kansas
"Don't focus on changing someone's mind. Love them unconditionally and you'll likely change their heart! This is your only requirement as one's heart leads the way!"
--- Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
"To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men."
--- Ella Wilcox --- Sent in by Ignacio --- Texas
"Yes or No? Two of the easiest words in the dictionary yet they are sometimes the hardest ones to say."
--- Claire Woodbridge --- Canada
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Dalton Marshall --- Canada
"If you were placed in a courtroom and accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"
--- Carrie P. Boston --- Ohio