Wed 3 Sep 2008
Goals
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Sometimes the path you’re on is not as important as the direction you’re heading.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the “try-angle.”
Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
It’s not if glass is half full or half empty that matters. It’s whether your goal is to ration what’s left or to fill it up again.
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
You can do anything, but not everything.
Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
Mon 1 Sep 2008
Dreams
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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert Heinlein
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask.
Fox Mulder
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend’s hand~ and hold on forever.
Traci Brown
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Author Unknown
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Martin Luther King
Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?
Ashleigh Brilliant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.
Phantom F. Harlock
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.
Author Unknown
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinowitz
In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow.
Louise Driscoll
Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.
Karen Ravn
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.
John Lennon
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Anias Nin
Some men see things as they are and say ‘why’? Others dream things that never were and say ‘why not’?
George Bernard Shaw
Dreams are … illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Galileo Galilei
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marde
Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream.
Author Unknown
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J.M. Power
Dream as if you’ll live forever… live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Louise Driscoll
Updated June 22, 2009
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
L. Frank Baum
Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.
Flavia
Imagination is everything! It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
Reason can answer questions but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph Gerard
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.
Jeremy Irons
Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
Astrid Alauda
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Thu 21 Aug 2008
Beginnings
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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
Alexander Clark
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.
Jim Rohn
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill
The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
Marquise du Deffand
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress,
and working together is success.
Henry Ford
Seems like I’ve been here before, can’t remember when
I get this funny feeling, we’ll be together again;
No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends;
No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.
Tom Chapin
Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
Author Unknown
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
Dave Weinbaum
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Native American Proverb
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene F. Ware
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Hoskins
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Joe Sabah
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland
What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.
Author Unknown
Updated June 22, 2009
To Love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm
Sir Winston Churchill
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Tue 15 Jul 2008
Hope
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Hope, Courage & Faith
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Author Unknown
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
Author Unknown
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.
Emily Dickinson
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
Author Unknown
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
What can appear to be your worst moments in life are sometimes just an invitation to yourself and to your next magical journey – a journey that we would never have had the courage to take unless forced to do so.
Mark Hoog
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Hope is grief’s best music.
Author Unknown
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucious
Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.
William Penn
While there’s life there’s hope.
Cicero
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior
He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw
Updated Nov. 2, 2008
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
I start to think there really is no cure for depression that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
We could never learn to be brave and patient , if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Courage is the strength to stand up.. when it is easier to sit down
Author Unknown
And the day came when the risk it took to remain inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin to Pooh
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandria
Trust your hopes, not your fears.
David Mahoney
He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb
Hope ever tells us tomorrow will be better.
Tibullus
Hope to the end.
1 Peter 1:13
We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Muriel Chen
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
The light of humanity never shines brighter than those moments in which someone reaches into the darkness of another’s suffering to offer comfort.
David L. Weatherford
Updated June 22, 2008
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Colton
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
I can make it through the rain I can stand up once again on my own and I know that I’m strong enough to mend. And everytime I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith and I live one more day and I make it through the rain
Mariah Carey
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Gandhi
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Mon 14 Jul 2008
Gratitude
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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Johannes A. Gaertner
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
Gratitude is a poem whispered from one heart to another.
Author Unknown
Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Lionel Hampton
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
Author Unknown
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart — a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water I accept with joy.
Bhagavad Gita
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Sun 13 Jul 2008
Attitude
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Motivational, Attitude & Reality Check!
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru’ chinks of his cavern.
William Blake
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Les Brown
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E.V. Lucas
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English proverb
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Updated Nov. 1, 2008
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t you’re right.
Henry Ford
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
Helen Keller
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the path of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
Have the determination of a mirror. It never loses its ability to reflect, even if it is broken into thousand pieces.
Author Unknown
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
John Barrymore
Speak when you are angry, you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
Just for today I will be happy. Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do things for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime. Just for today…
Sybyl F. Partridge
Updated June 27, 2009
Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, count
Einstein
There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last
Jonathan Larsonabout
You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank
It’s not if glass is half full or half empty that matters. It’s whether your goal is to ration what’s left or to fill it up again.
Unknown
We are not held back by the Love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
M. Williamson
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Les Brown
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Wed 6 Feb 2008
To all who…
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have stood by me through the good times and the bad… I Love You!
Fri 12 Oct 2007
Some of my favorite Bird Quotes!
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then – oh, why can’t I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can’t I?
Lyman Frank Baum
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J.G. Holland
The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for faith is necessary to have wings.
James M. Barrie
Life is good only when it is magical and musical … You must hear bird’s song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
John James Audubon
A light broke in upon my soul–
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased–and then it came again
The sweetest song ear ever heard.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
