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Nancy

Monday, May 07, 2001 - 09:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Your Welcome Lance

Nancy

Friday, May 11, 2001 - 05:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Nancy. That's what I like. Simple things for simple minds.

Gail

Friday, May 11, 2001 - 05:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
"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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport
the 'terminal'?

Kady

Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 11:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL...Never thought of that. Cute Nor, I think I may drive on my next trip.

Flint

Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 08:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
-Anon

Nancy

Wednesday, May 30, 2001 - 06:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
WISDOM
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"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 EditMoveDeleteIP
"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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Good to begin well, better to end well.

Grod

Friday, June 01, 2001 - 06:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thought of the Day:
Take a Day off From Thinking - anonymous

Nancy

Friday, June 01, 2001 - 07:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS:

We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement
is oxygen to the soul.

Nancy

Friday, June 01, 2001 - 07:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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THE ANT PHILOSOPHY by Jim Rohn
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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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Dyslexia means never having to say that you're yrros.

Tksoard

Friday, June 01, 2001 - 08:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Nancy, I really like your ant story!! Thanks for sharing it.

Nancy

Friday, June 01, 2001 - 08:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
your most welcome ;-)

Grooch

Friday, June 01, 2001 - 08:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Nor.

Willi

Friday, June 01, 2001 - 09:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Each day comes bearing its own gifts.
Untie the ribbons.

-Ruth Ann Schabacker