Friday, May 2, 2008

Quotes to Ponder....

Wow! This has been a busy month! I'll try and sit down and get my blogging caught up maybe next week. We have a busy weekend with the Great Strides Walk and the Miracle Makers telethon. If you can watch Komo channel 4 Saturday at 7:00 Josiah will be on! For now, here are some quotes to ponder:

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could...

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer



The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

- Swedish proverb



Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

- Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu's teachings



Wisdom has two parts: 1)-Having a lot to say. 2)-Not saying it.

- Church billboard in Vermont



Life is not a 'brief candle.' It is a splendid torch that must be made to burn as brightly as possible before it is handed on to the next generation.

- George Bernard Shaw, Irish critic and playwright



Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.

- Church billboard in Colorado


You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

- Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President


Stop living life for what's around the corner and start enjoying the walk down the street.

- Grant L. Miller, motivational guru


The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.

- Unknown


"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

- Calvin Coolidge, American president


Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

- Sally Koch


No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop, Greek author of fables


Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Ten Boom, author and human rights activist

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