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

William James on Belief and Success

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking

is the one thing that ensures

the successful outcome of our venture.

William James

Empty Pockets vs Empty Heads

Empty pockets

never held anyone back.

Only empty heads

and empty hearts

can do that.

unknown

Mother Teresa on Smiling

We shall never know all the good

that a simple smile can do.

~ Mother Teresa

Life isn’t about finding yourself.

“Life isn’t about finding yourself.

Life’s about creating yourself.”

- George Bernard Shaw

Thoughts Are Things AND Our Lives!!

"Our life always expresses the result

of our dominant thoughts."

Sren Kierkegaard