August 2012 Blog Posts (23)

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Bill Watterson

Well summer will be ending soon and autumn will bring us cool weather in my part of the world along with a rainbow of colors as the trees begin preparing for their annual winter hibernation. Each season brings us…

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

It seems to me lately that too many of us no longer require facts to back up what we buy into. At the very time we are becoming more isolated from a variety of trusted…

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”

Steve Maraboli

Here I am again writing to you while sitting amongst piles of “someday soon,” “That’s interesting I want to read it,” as well as “I wonder why I…

“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”

Augustine of Hippo

Good morning, I hope all is well with you and that you are finding some semblance of peace of mind these days. I know many do not but in my view a lot of their turmoil is self-inflicted in part. Some of us seem to have developed…

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

John Henry Newman

I am beginning to wonder about myself, OK I am not really beginning I continue to wonder about myself. I am not sure it is really me who seems to be on the path to even further physical fitness…

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning

Ray left early this morning on special assignment and left it up to me to locate a previous Daily and send it to you. Oh and I almost forgot, he wanted me to tell you to have a great weekend.

Ray’s Computer…

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

Jewish Proverb

The other day I made a pitch for allowing tranquility into our lives -- at least for a little bit whenever we can. In a meeting I had yesterday morning with a new friend from another nation I again realized how elusive tranquility can be…

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

Maria Robinson

Yesterday was pretty full and today is loaded and will test my capacity. But it will be good for I have a meeting with a new friend from Africa who is a welcome addition to our community. In…

“It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.”

Marcus Aurelius

I was talking to a friend yesterday who leads a highly active professional and private life. In fact it is so busy she finds herself so…

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Benjamin Franklin

I hope your weekend was as good as ours was, It has been great here the last five or six days, cool weather and best of all it really rained. We needed it and it did a great job of cleaning the air and greening the landscape, in truth even though we can…

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”

Mitch Albom,

These are not easy times for many. People my age deal with the grief associated with the loss of loved…

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots”

Henry Louis Mencken

I sure hope today is less interesting then my day yesterday. I started out by disappointing myself at my 5 AM workout by having to abort after…

“When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems and that's all what we love of talking about. We don't see the good things in our lives.”

Ann Marie Aguilar

I sometimes don’t understand why I run into so many unhappy people. I am beginning to wonder if they just need to agonize just so people will pay attention to them. Years ago I attended a seminar where there was substantial discussion…

“Three keys to more abundant living: Caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.”

William Arthur Ward

My children and their families hosted a fantastic birthday party for my wife on Sunday that included a great gift. They had arraigned for her sister, her brother-in-law, our favorite niece,…

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

Les Brown

I was with a friend the other day who was so concerned about the part she has to play each day in her personal and professional life that she has little time to invest in happier…

"Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place, and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different."

Maria Robinson

I was talking to a friend yesterday and told him that I had learned not too long ago that I was as guilty…

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”

Albert Einstein

I find myself in somewhat of a quandary and think I probably need some self-therapy and…

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

Sophia Loren

The morning came fast today as I had to sleep quickly since I did not get back from seeing Nunsense again…

“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse”

Jeffrey R. Holland

It was a little depressing yesterday as I could not avoid hearing from some of the “Never Happy” folks. I really don’t mind objective observations, if we don’t see what is wrong we will never fix it. What gets me is those…

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

William Arthur Ward

Here we go again, another new week. I don’t know about you but mine will be loaded with a combination of obligations, opportunities for enjoyment and things yet to be discovered. This morning I…