Archive through June 01, 2001
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Archive Through June 1, 2001:
Archive through June 01, 2001
Nancy | Monday, May 07, 2001 - 09:29 am     Your Welcome Lance |
Nancy | Friday, May 11, 2001 - 05:02 am     "Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down." Chinese Proverb "What is conceived well is expressed clearly." Nicholas Boileau "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." Hans Hofmann "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way." Ernest Hemingway "To simplify complications is the first essential of success." George Earle Buckle |
Tksoard | Friday, May 11, 2001 - 05:08 am     Thanks Nancy. That's what I like. Simple things for simple minds. |
Gail | Friday, May 11, 2001 - 05:31 am     For a long time, it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last, it dawned on me that these obstacles were life. Alfred D. Souza |
Wink | Friday, May 11, 2001 - 06:40 am     There once was a happy fly buzzing around a barn. One day, she happened upon a large pile of manure. Since it had been hours since her last meal and she felt hunger pangs, she flew down to the irresistible delicacy and began to munch. She ate...and ate...and then....she ate some more. Finally she decided she'd had plenty. She washed her face with her tiny front legs, belched a few times, then attempted to fly away. But...alas...she had pigged out far too much and could not get off the ground. She looked around wondering what to do about this unpleasant situation. Then she spotted a pitchfork leaning upright against the barn wall. She'd found a solution. She realized if she could just become airborne, she would be able to fly again. So she painstakingly climbed to the top of the handle. Once ther, she took a deep breath, spread her tiny fly wings, and leaped confidently into the air. She dropped like a rock and splattered all over the floor.....Dead Fly... The moral of this sad story? "Never fly off the handle when you know you are full of shit". |
Nancy | Friday, May 18, 2001 - 04:24 am     jeez im falling behind on providing these ;-) An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves." --Lydia M. Child "Take the time to come home to yourself everyday." --Robin Casarjean "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing." --John Lennon Let yourself go: "The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." --George Santayana "O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!" --John Keats "Men who never get carried away should be." --Malcolm Forbes |
Nancy | Monday, May 21, 2001 - 07:21 am     "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." Kenneth Blanchard "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives." Theodore Roosevelt "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." Lao-Tzu "One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." Arnold Glasow "Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Nancy | Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 11:41 am     I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone." Bernard Gilpin "In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." Theodore Roosevelt "Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out." Sir Girad "We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. " Jonathan Westover "Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision." Anthony Robbins |
Kady | Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 08:19 pm     I haven't been here in awhile. I just read the post from Lance and I am crying my eyes out. That was so sad yet so wonderful at the same time. |
Norwican | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 10:51 am     If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the 'terminal'? |
Kady | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 11:47 am     LOL...Never thought of that. Cute Nor, I think I may drive on my next trip. |
Flint | Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 08:04 am     The natural order of things includes us, and its laws are our laws. We are an endless moving stream in an endless moving stream. - Jisho Warner |
Karuuna | Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 08:08 am     This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. - Walt Whitman |
Wink | Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 11:48 am     Character is much easier kept than recovered. -Anon |
Nancy | Wednesday, May 30, 2001 - 06:15 am     WISDOM =================================================== "Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late." -- Felix Frankfurter "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." -- Akhenaton |
Zeb | Wednesday, May 30, 2001 - 12:32 pm     "Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again." -- Sen. Chris Dodd (D, Conn.)on a radio talk show |
Tess | Wednesday, May 30, 2001 - 07:59 pm     Good to begin well, better to end well. |
Grod | Friday, June 01, 2001 - 06:57 am     Thought of the Day: Take a Day off From Thinking - anonymous |
Nancy | Friday, June 01, 2001 - 07:31 am     ~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS: We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. |
Nancy | Friday, June 01, 2001 - 07:34 am     ==================================================== THE ANT PHILOSOPHY by Jim Rohn ==================================================== Over the years I've been teaching children about a simple but powerful concept - the ant philosophy. I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four- part philosophy, and here is the first part: ants never quit. That's a good philosophy. If they're headed somewhere and you try to stop them, they'll look for another way. They'll climb over, they'll climb under, they'll climb around. They keep looking for another way. What a neat philosophy, to never quit looking for a way to get where you're supposed to go. Second, ants think winter all summer. That's an important perspective. You can't be so naive as to think summer will last forever. So ants are gathering in their winter food in the middle of summer. An ancient story says, "Don't build your house on the sand in the summer." Why do we need that advice? Because it is important to be realistic. In the summer, you've got to think storm. You've got to think rocks as you enjoy the sand and sun. Think ahead. The third part of the ant philosophy is that ants think summer all winter. That is so important. During the winter, ants remind themselves, "This won't last long; we'll soon be out of here." And the first warm day, the ants are out. If it turns cold again, they'll dive back down, but then they come out the first warm day. They can't wait to get out. And here's the last part of the ant philosophy. How much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All that he possibly can. What an incredible philosophy, the "all-that-you-possibly-can" philosophy. Wow, what a great seminar to attend - the ant seminar. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can. To Your Success, Jim Rohn |
Norwican | Friday, June 01, 2001 - 07:58 am     Dyslexia means never having to say that you're yrros. |
Tksoard | Friday, June 01, 2001 - 08:25 am     Nancy, I really like your ant story!! Thanks for sharing it. |
Nancy | Friday, June 01, 2001 - 08:28 am     your most welcome ;-) |
Grooch | Friday, June 01, 2001 - 08:34 am     Thanks, Nor. |
Willi | Friday, June 01, 2001 - 09:53 am     Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. -Ruth Ann Schabacker |
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