January 2017 Blog Posts (21)

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

It happened again; today I am another year older. I have lived longer than I…

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Carl Rogers

My brother, the world traveler, visited with my family the last few days. We had representatives of four generations of gather to…

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Before I start this morning I want to tell…

"A negative focus can result in our entirely missing the possibilities placed in our path." 

Anne Wilson Schaef

One of the challenges facing people my age is the almost daily loss of old friends and acquaintances. Yesterday as an example I learned that an old and dear friend had died, he was 95 and had lived a rich and fruitful life. While I morn his loss I will always…

"A negative focus can result in our entirely missing the possibilities placed in our path." 

Anne Wilson Schaef

One of the challenges facing people my age is the almost daily loss of old friends and acquaintances. Yesterday as an example I learned that an old and dear friend had died, he was 95 and had lived a rich and fruitful life. While I morn his loss I will always…

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Yesterday wore me out and I am slow…

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Palmer Sondreal

One of the things that make me happy is the…

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Marcus Aurelius

I really appreciate the articles folks…

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia

Lately technology has complicated my life. The screen on one of my Amazon Tablets cracked when I dropped it so I bought a new replacement. My…

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

Cavett Robert

I think it was actress Betty Davis who said something like getting old is not for…

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

Hans Hofmann

Hi everyone, yes Ray’s Daily is back. I had spent the last four days trying to recover from a corrupted data file that…

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

I have been publishing the Daily now for almost fifteen years and that amazes me. I guess the old adage…

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

Elbert Hubbard

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Good morning everyone.…

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

I am still trying to make peace with my less active life style. While some of the changes are due to health restrictions the bottom line…

“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”

Anthony Robbins

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Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

We are coming off of a frigid weekend with subfreezing…

“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”

Justin Cronin,

I was thinking the other day about the folks I have met who have done some…

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

J K Rowling

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“Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

Aldous Huxley ~

I am off to see my pulmonologist this morning to verify I am still breathing, I pretty sure I am but…

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Well my friends here we are at the beginning of another new year. I don’t know about you but I plan on keeping things simpler this year. I am not going to worry about what I…