Quote for the day

58POSTS

15 years ago

I love quotations and I figured I'd just post a few of my favorites for y'all to start your day....have a peaceful Sunday out there people!

聯As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.聰 - John F Kennedy

聯I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.聰 - Jimmy Dean

聯Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.聰 - Maria Robinson

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terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

Hi Mary,

That's nice and a good idea. Others can聽 share some motivational quotes too.
Cheers!!!!
Terence

Guestposter78 Guest

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15 years ago

Choose your battles

Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you are right.
- Henry Ford

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

It聮s not about having what you want but about wanting what you聮ve got!!!!

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

Thanks Terence!....Enjoy these people:)

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." - Barry LePatner

"That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - William Wordsworth

"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess." - Mark Twain

Natalya Hovsepyan Member

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15 years ago

Hi Mary,

Thanks for the idea,

Here are some of my favourites,

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

Thanks Natalya....Great quotes, especially the Adams one.

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

Good morning Mauritius! Here's some more to mull on for the new day out there! Have a good one!!!

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." - Maya Angelou

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

"The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel".
--- Abraham

"We must raise ourselves to the levels of energy where WE ARE the happiness we desire, WE ARE the love we feel is missing, where WE ARE the unlimited abundance we crave. By being it, we attract IT to us. By condemning its absense, we ensure that condemnation & discord will continue to flow into our lives" Dr Wayne W. Dyer

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." -
Rudyard Kipling

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." -Anatole France

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." - Deepak Chopra

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#10

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."
Lao Tzu

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

#11

Terence that's an awesome one.

Mary_Lawless Active member

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15 years ago

#12

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."聽 ~Carl Sandburg

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."聽 ~Judy Garland

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

#13

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."聽 ~Henry Ford

"A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work."聽 ~Geoffrey Norman

"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."聽 ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

terence ViP

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15 years ago

#14

"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success" Abdul Kalam

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

#15

It's Independence day in my country and I thought I'd just share a few sentiments and quotes concerning it. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Have a nice day Mauritius!!!

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.聽 You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism."聽 ~Erma Bombeck

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."聽 ~William J. Clinton

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you."聽 ~Christian Morgenstern

cahrl Member

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15 years ago

#16

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

rishi Serial expat

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15 years ago

#17

Hi mary

Thank for your post send us daily quote of the day to make us relax our stressfull mine.

Regards Rishi

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#18

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein

He was a good man. He never smoked, drank & had no affair. When he died, the insurance company refused the claim....They said, "He who never lived, cannot die!"

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#19

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see OUTSIDE of you what you fail to see INSIDE." - Anthony De Mello

Guestposter78 Guest

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15 years ago

#20

hi,
would like to share something i took by heart, some years ago:

"circumstances are destiny, in a mere disguise" Gandhi

all yours,
islander.

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#21

"I try to teach my children that being successful isn聮t necessarily about performing a specific task, being in a certain occupation, or living in a particular location. It聮s about sharing yourself in a creative, loving way using the skills and interests that are inherently part of you." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

JohnMartinB Active member

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15 years ago

#22

Hello everybody. I have one I saw today that reminded me of someone I know very well ...

If you cant handle me at my worst you sure as hell don聮t deserve me at my best.

Not sure I buy into this idea, but it made me smile all the same.

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#23

AS YOU GET OLDER THREE THINGS HAPPEN...................THE FIRST IS YOU LOSE YOUR MEMORY , AND I CANT REMEMBER THE OTHER TWO...........

Guestposter78 Guest

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15 years ago

#24

ok guys, my turn:

"winners never quit. Quitters never win". Vince Lombardi

islander,
all yours.

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#25

"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment".
Dale Carnegie

Worry, frustration & resentment - none of them - "solution" oriented , but still so much time and energy invested in them . Is it really hard to invest less or equal amount of time & energy in faith, being patient or in acceptance?

Guestposter78 Guest

0POSTS

15 years ago

#26

ok guyz,
how about a break? a short laugh can do good!

"He's nice to people 'n animals... but you oughta hear him talkin' to a golf ball!" Denis the menace

sometimes things gets too serious in life,
Islander.

Ashtangi Active member

74POSTS

15 years ago

#27

Hiya sharing some quotes that changed my life

"It's better to be always optimist and suffer half the amount of evil than always be of dark and gloomy anticipations and never suffer anything at all." -Xerxes The Great

"Constant practice alone is the secret of success. Practice and all is coming"

"You become what you think you are" -Gautama Buddha

Guestposter78 Guest

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15 years ago

#28

say izzy, about this one..

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain

better not to take Twain too seriously?,

c ya,
islander77.

Ashtangi Active member

74POSTS

15 years ago

#29

You are what you eat

Guestposter78 Guest

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15 years ago

#30

lol,
how bout taglines, does anyone loves them?

AIG- We know money

This sounds more real though : Audi-Never follow

cheers,
islander.

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#31

"My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen." - Susan Powter

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#32

Religious Harmony week -
8th Sep Mother Mary's birthday,
9th Sep Jewish New Year,
10th Sep Eid-Ul-Fitr,
11th Sep Ganesh Chaturthi.....time to put our differences behind and celebrate.

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#33

聯Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.聰 - Anthony Robbins

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#34

"Occupy the mind with positive thoughts. Set realistic goals. Isolate negative influences. Conquer fears. Eliminate stress. Visualize success. Expect the best !!!!!!!

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#35

聯People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All i...s a miracle.聰
Thich Nhat Hanh

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

#36

Hey folks, I'm back and thanks for keeping this going. Izzy thanks hon. You too Terence. Read all the lovely quotes. Really nice ya'll. Here's one for ya'll to mull over the rest of the day....

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."聽 ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them:聽 "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden."聽 ~St Augustine

Julien Founder

53148POSTS

15 years ago

#37

Have you ever heard of Paul Arden's great book "it's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be" ?

As a young entrepreneur I really like this book.

Some of my favourite quotes: "the person who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything"

"When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist"

"It's not what you know. It's who you know"

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

#38

nice quotes Julien and I've just noted down the name of the book to order later

Very apt for a housewife too ;)Have a lovely day on that idyllic island.

Mary_Lawless Active member

58POSTS

15 years ago

#39

Good morning ya'll! Hope everyone has a fantastic day. Here are some gems I picked up.....Enjoy and hugs.

"You think dogs will not be in heaven?聽 I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."聽 ~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.聽 Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."聽 ~St Francis de Sales

"It is always the secure who are humble."聽 ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"God sells us all things at the price of labor."聽 ~Leonardo da Vinci

terence ViP

679POSTS

15 years ago

#40

"It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely" Neale Donald Walsch