Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. ~ John Beecher

Strength is a matter

of the made-up mind.

~ John Beecher

The Ladder of Success

Success is a ladder you cannot climb

with your hands in your pockets.

~ American Proverb

"Money is like manure;......

"Money is like manure;

it's not worth a thing

unless it's spread around

encouraging young things to grow."

— Thorton Wilder

Feed your mind healthy ideas or

Feed your mind healthy ideas
or the world will feed you negative ideas
that will manifest in your life.

~Rev. Ike

To have peace, give peace. To be happy, make happy. To feel loved, love.

"To have peace, give peace.

To be happy, make happy.

To feel loved, love.

This is very simple and

is a part of all the world's inspired teachings."

- Hugh Prather

Think Love - Why.......

"Think lovingly,

speak lovingly,

act lovingly,

and every need shall be supplied."

- James Allen

The Science of Aging

Youth is a circumstance you can't

do anything about.

The trick is to grow up

without getting old

- unknown

"Drop the idea of becoming someone because..

"Drop the idea of becoming someone,

because u are already a masterpiece.

U cannot be improved.

U have only to know it and realize it."

- Osho

Dyer on Seeing ....

If you change the way you look at things,

the things you look at change

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

“When you become certain that nothing is impossible for you, ......

“When you become certain that nothing is impossible for you,

you will attain everything you desire.”

- Wayne Dyer

"Control your destiny or somebody else will.

"Control your destiny

or somebody else will."

-Jack Welsh

The world is not yet exhausted;

The world is not yet exhausted;
let me see something tomorrow
which I never saw before.

-Samuel Johnson

How will you summarize your life?

The saddest summary of a life

contains three descriptions:

could have,

might have,

and should have.

- Louis E. Boone

“The more you know the less you need to say.” Jim Rohn

“The more you know

the less you need to say.”

Jim Rohn

Christopher Reeve on Dreams

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible,

then they seem improbable,

and then, when we summon the will,

they soon become inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

Schwarzenegger - On Jealousy

"Everybody pities the weak;

jealousy you have to earn."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

As within so without c/o Emerson

“People do not seem to realize

that their opinion of the world

is also a confession of character.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Pitfalls of Seriousness

"Seriousness is one of the most serious diseases of mankind -

it causes stress

and prevents people from giving things a try" -

R. Bandler

co-developer of NLP, neuro-linguistic programming

Rohn on Raking Risks

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual,

you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

- Jim Rohn

Satchel Paige on Overcoming the Odds

"Never let the odds keep you from

pursuing what you know in your heart

you were meant to do."

- Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Superstar & First black baseball pitcher

Armstrong on Pain

Pain is temporary.

Quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

How to Look at a Day

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap

but by the seeds you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Disney on Getting Started

The way to get started

is to quit talking

and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

Carnegie on Great Leaders

"No man will make a great leader who

wants to do it all himself,

or to get all the credit for doing it."

Andrew Carnegie

Do what you do best!!

"The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. What you do best, helps not only yourself, but the world."

- Roger Williams

Do what you do best!!

"The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. What you do best, helps not only yourself, but the world."

- Roger Williams

Donald Trump on Adversity

"My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage. My life is a study of that."

- Donald Trump

Here now as I sit with:

- A wheel broken so bad that it is in two pieces

- A bus that won't start and has three days to move or be towed

- A computer that is so badly infected I cannot access anything Google

- Repeated requests for a Powerbook or Ibook so I can work with my old files so I can make $$ that have been ignored and ignored

I wonder how much lower I can sink. And so the above words are my THXgiving here on Black Friday!!

THX 4 all of U!!

The Power of Kindness

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love.

- Lao Tzu

Helen Keller on Self-pity

Self-pity is our worst enemy

and if we yield to it,

we can never do anything wise in this world.

Helen Keller

"Life has no boundaries, only what your mind perceives as boundaries." Michael Bloxton

"Life has no boundaries, only what your mind perceives as boundaries."

Michael Bloxton

Live in your imagination and not your memory

"Live in your imagination

and

not your memory."

Stephen Covey

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

For every minute you are angry

you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother Teresa on Peace

"If we have no peace,

it is because we have forgotten

that we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa

"A gold medal is a wonderful thing. but,,,,,

"A gold medal is a wonderful thing.

But if you're not enough without it,

you'll never be enough with it."

(From Cool Runnings)

ALBERT SCHWEITZER on Kindness

"Constant kindness can accomplish much.

As the sun makes

ice melt,

kindness causes misunderstanding,

mistrust and hostility

to evaporate."

DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER (1875-1965)

Medical missionary and Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Accomplishment and The Power of Faith

"The only thing that stands between a man

and what he wants from life

is often merely the will to try it

and the faith to believe that it is possible."

- Richard M. DeVos

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never

have a love affair,

We'd never have a friendship.

We'd never go into business,

because we'd be cynical.

Well, that's nonsense.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time

And build your wings on the way down."

- Ray Bradbury

"A leader is best When people barely know he exist..

"A leader is best When

people barely know he exists,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will say:

We did it ourselves."

Jim Rohn

Benjamin Franklin on Love

"Those who love deeply never grow old;

they may die of old age,

but they die young."

- Benjamin Franklin

Shakespeare on Goal Attainment

To climb steep hills

requires a slow pace at first.

Shakespeare

Shakespeare on Goal Attainment

To climb steep hills

requires a slow pace at first.

Shakespeare

There is no try

There is only

Do

or

Not Do,

There is No Try.

Wise Yoda

(Empire Strikes Back movie)

Right or Happy?

Do you prefer that you be right

or happy?

A Course In Miracles