Saturday, August 31, 2013

Famous people quotes-Evil

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- George Eliot

Daily quotes-Pace of nature

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, August 30, 2013

Marriage quotes-Opposites

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- George Bernard Shaw

Humor quotes-Painting wildlife

"I enjoy painting wildlife. But the rabbits leave hair on my paint rollers."
- Scott E. Roeben

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Motivational thoughts-Stand tall

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.

Lessons of History

Those who do not learn the lessons of history are bound to repeat them.
- Santyana

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Famous people quotes-Present moment

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow

Thought for the day-Balance life

Balance activity with serenity, wealth with simplicity, persistence with innovation, community with solitude, familiarity with adventure, constancy with change, leading with following.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Motivational thoughts-Open to new lessons

Never stop being open to new life lessons.
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sarcastic quotes-What do women want?

Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?"
The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
- Bill Cosby

Monday, August 26, 2013

Deep thoughts-Esthetic superiority

"Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one."
- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Worth living for

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
- Hamilton Fish

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Thought for the day-Master of Emotions

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Famous people quotes-Dream things

You see things; and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were;
and I say, 'Why not?'
- George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational quotes-Diligence

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson

Friday, August 23, 2013

Famous people quotes-Wear to bed

Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.
- Tom Bradley

In love with a dimple

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Ironic life

"Life can be ironic. Come to find out, the only thing I'm allergic to is allergy medicine."
- Scott E. Roeben

Blessings of life

As we join hands in fellowship around this bountiful table, we give thanks for the blessings of this food and the love of these friends as a symbol of our gratitude for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Thought for the day-Habits

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Sexual quotes-Excite

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.
- Malcolm Muggeridge, on p*rnography, Tread Softly For You Tread On My Jokes, 1966

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Deep thoughts-Walk with nature

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir

Famous people quotes-Deny freedom

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

Monday, August 19, 2013

Motivational thoughts-Total commitment

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
- Tom Flores

Reproduction of mankind

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
- Martin Luther

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Wordy evidence

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

Thought for the day-A place to be yourself

If your home is not a place where you can truly kick-back and be yourself - both physically and emotionally - consider making some changes in your way of life.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Famous people quotes-Popular idea of health

"One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), A Woman of No Importance, act 1.

Marriage quotes-Long evenings

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.
- Kin Hubbard

Friday, August 16, 2013

Funny quotes-Taxi drivers

"If practice makes perfect, how do you explain taxi drivers?"
- Scott E. Roeben

Daily quotes-A reason

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason - there is a reason.
- Molly McGee

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Good act

Because of some good act to beast or man - the world is better that I lived to-day.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thought for the day-Beyond

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Positive quotes-Rising of the sun

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Dreams come true

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
- Lyman Frank Baum

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Inspirational quotes-Excel yourself

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it .
- Charles M. Sheldon

Famous people quotes-Good shot

"No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often."
- Teddy Roosevelt

Monday, August 12, 2013

Positive quotes-Follow your heart

Choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Daily quotes-That fleeting moment

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment,
when you are between asleep and awake,
when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy,
when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul
that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Easy divorces

Easy divorces have just about put arguing out of business.
- Red Skelton

Sport

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
- Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Man and Superman

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Motivational thoughts-Results

Sometimes you get the results you wanted, sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humor quotes-Inventor

"I used to be an inventor. In fact, who do you think up with the inflatable voodoo doll?"
- Scott E. Roeben

Friday, August 9, 2013

Inquisitive

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life, either about God's secrets or one's wife.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Sexual quotes-Disprove

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
- Cary Grant

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Inspirational quotes-The price of success

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Better after worse

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
- Doug Larson

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Hilarious quotes-Shower curtain

"I swam 400 laps today. And that wasn't easy. Half the time the shower curtain was in the way."
- Scott E. Roeben

Forced to love you

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Famous people quotes-In act

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- William Shakespeare

Positive quotes-Excellence

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
- Booker T. Washington

Monday, August 5, 2013

Marriage quotes-Poetry and prose

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
- Beverley Nichols

Humor quotes-Women's liberation

I have always considered myself an expert on women's liberation. In the last fifteen years, I have given two their freedom myself.
- Lewis Grizzard

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Strong convictions

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

Learn from one another

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Famous people quotes-Myth

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Reality of tomorrow

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard

Friday, August 2, 2013

Melting pot

"If New York is a melting pot, that must mean Los Angeles is a crock pot."
- Scott E. Roeben

Deadlines

They don't call them DEADlines for nothing - keep breathing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Inspirational quotes-Candle

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham

Quote on love-Risk

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