POIGNANT PONDERINGS


"FEAR....
The thief of dreams."
~Anonymous



"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light !

~Dylan Thomas


"Any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankind.
And therefore, never send to know
for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee."

~John Donne


"Why should we be in such
desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate
enterprises ? If a man does not keep
pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears
a different drummer.
Let him step
to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away."
~Henry David Thoreau
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are endless."
~Mother Theresa



"Keep in mind
that the true meaning
of an individual is how he treats
a person that can do him
absolutely no good."
~Ann Landers

"Know yourself. Don't accept
your dog's admiration as
conclusive that you are wonderful."
~Ann Landers
"That old law about
"an eye for an eye"
leaves everybody blind."
~Martin Luther King

"The ark was built by amateurs,
and the Titanic by experts.
Don't wait for experts."
~Murray Cohen




"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.
I have lost almost 3,000 games.
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game's winning shot....and missed.
And I have failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why....I succeed."

~Michael Jordan


"Courage takes many forms.
There is physical courage, there is moral courage.
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage
to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know
of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up
in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead."

~Howard Cosell




"Even if you're on
the right track,
you'll get run over
if you just sit there."
~Will Rogers
"Life is a great and wondrous mystery,
and the only thing we know,
that we have for sure,
is what is right here, right now.
Don't miss it."
~Leo Buscaglia

Yesterday is ashes;
tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly."
~Eskimo Saying


"I have learned to live each day as it comes,
and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
It is the dark menace of the future
that makes cowards of us."

~Dorothy Dix


"As you get older,
don't slow down.
Speed up !
There's less time left."
~Malcolm Forbes
"Our greatest glory
is not
in never falling,
but in rising
every time we fall."
~Confucius
"As long as
you're
going to think anyway,
think big."

~Donald Trump




"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace,
harmony, health, love and abundance.
Then, whenever doubts, anxiety, or fear
try to call me,
they keep getting a busy signal -
and soon they'll forget my number."

~Edith Armstrong



"Always forgive
your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much."
~Oscar Wilde
"God gave us two ends.
One to sit on and one
to think with.
Success depends on which
one you use:
heads you win
tails you lose."
~Anonymous
"The miracle is this -
the more we share,
the more we have."

~Leonard Nimoy

"Courage is not the absence of fear,
but the mastery of it."

~Mark Twain


"No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent."

~Eleanor Roosevelt


"Use what talents you possess :
the woods would be very
silent if no birds
sang except those
that sang best."

~Henry Van Dyke

"You were born an original.
Don't die a copy."
~John Mason

"When your candle burns low, you've got to believe
that the last light shows you something
besides the progress of darkness"

~Tennessee Williams

OH, the wild joys of living !
~Robert Browning




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