August 2013 Blog Posts (22)

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

Here we are on the threshold of autumn after an…

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.”

Saint Francis de Sales

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Have you…

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Audrey Hepburn

The other day I wrote that I believed that if you behaved in a pleasing and positive manner that you would…

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference.  The little difference is attitude.  The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

The more I…

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming

Alice Walker

I was with a friend the other day who reported that his life became boring and…

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

Ernest Hemingway

Boy do I think Hemingway is right. I hated it when my old company put in a system that required us to go through a lengthy procedure to make sure someone was not…

"When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one."

Mark Twain

Do you ever get the blahs? I do and since I can’t stand too much time in a funk I usually quickly do something to bring my…

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Henry Ellis

I have another one of those full days today. I’ll spend some time with my Doctor to follow-up on my brief weekend…

"The business process starts with the customer. In fact, if it is not started with the customer, it all too many times abruptly ends with the customer."

William Scherkenbach

When I was in the computer industry I had the good fortune to be able to work with…

Health is a large word.  It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;…and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.

James H. West

Good morning all. I hope you had a…

“There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I think I have mentioned before how…

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

George Bernard Shaw

I had breakfast with a consultant friend the other day and discovered that she has demonstrated a willingness to…

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Lao Tzu

The other day I included a quote that it is never too late to start your second childhood. Actually as I have suggested in many Dailies in…

You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching,

Love like you’ll never be hurt,

Sing like there’s nobody listening,

And live like it’s heaven on earth.

William W. Purkey

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"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

Michelangelo

Good morning everyone. Here we go again a new week, a new day and a…

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

I have been concerned a number of times lately by folks who have told me that they are having a difficult time coping…

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”

Chinese proverb

It has been a full week so far. My cell phone died and I succumbed to the siren song of the…

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

I was with someone the other day that went ballistic…

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday morning while we were working at a fundraiser for our Kiwanis Club’s annual Christmas Clothe-a-Child project. I had…

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

William Jennings Bryan

How many people do you know that are stuck in life trying to do what everyone but themselves…