WISDOM

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Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~Stanley Crawford

Every winter,

When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley

O, wind ....... If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



WISDOM

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion - of fun, love, or something that will outlast you - so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions. ~Terri Guillemets

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox

Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht

[O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~From the television show Scrubs

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard

Always when judging

Who people are,

Remember to footnote

The words "So far."

~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr

A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard

On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White

Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand: "How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein

Decorate yourself from the inside out. ~Terri Guillemets

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens

We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale

Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless

I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis

Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln

It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown

The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb

When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith

When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

The biggest problem in the world

Could have been solved when it was small.

~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard

I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead

Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com/

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" ~Oprah Winfrey

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg

Being loved by all is little fun

Unless you're also loved by one.

~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb

Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian

Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring"

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Aman is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison

Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger

When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger

Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin

As quoted from: http://www.quotegarden.com/wise-words.html

THE LESSON FROM A DONKEY!

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.


He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly.............
Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well.He was astonished at what he saw.
With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.


As the farmer's neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

MORAL :
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt.
The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up.
Each of our troubles is a steppingstone.
We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up!
Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.

2. Free your mind from worries - Most never happen.

3. Live simply and appreciate what you have.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less from people but more from God.

You have two choices...smile and close this page, or pass this along to someone else to share the lesson !! Enjoy Life & Stay Happy !!!!!