Life

"Life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans."--John Lennon

Success

"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning."--Lao-Tzu

The wisest

"The wisest follow their own direction."--Euripides

workmanship

"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."--Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)

Gifts

"Each one should use whatever gift he's received to serve others."--1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)

Generosity

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."–-Margaret Cho

Get worse

"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."--Lily Tomlin

One day at a time

"I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once."--Jennifer Unlimited

Watch carefully

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies forthe big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wearsyou out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."--Robert Service

Les Brown

"If you keep on doing what you are doing, you are going to keep ongetting, what you get, so if you don't like what you've been getting,you should look at what you you've been doing."--Les Brown

Doing

"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."--Bob Beamon

Injury

"Injury to one is an injury to all."--Picket sign, 4-14-05

Music

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream and our dream is heaven."--Amiel

Imitation

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."-- Fred Allen

positive attitude

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."--Herm Albright

Quotes (from Sassygirlie414)

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."--Gilbert K. Chesterson

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."--Plato

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that"--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Be kind, for everyone one you meet is fighting a harder battle."--Plato

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood"--Marie Curie

More quotes

"The gardens of kindness never fade."--Greek Proverb.

"I will not be satisfied any more living my life simply for myself. Other issues are much broader than my own little world."--Anita Hill (1956- ), American lawyer, educator and writer.

Important Quotes

"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing."--Quincy Jones (1933- ), American musician and entrepreneur.

"We can only learn to love by giving."--Iris Murdoch (1919-99), British writer.

"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."--James Freeman Clarke (1810-88), American writer and clergyman.

Love

According to BoundBrook, Citizen Member # 4722, of the Jamaicans.com website, says: "Love-when someone else's happiness is as important as your own."

*(See also my friendship and VJ blogs).

me in Coalinga, CA, returning from Union trip to Sacramento, Aug. 2002
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me at kiosk in local mall, early 2001 ?
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Me in home office, early 2004
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Montgomery, Alabama, Aug. 1996 

The Real God

When we have a problem or critical situation, God is there with helpful information and action. The next best thing to God is a multitude of (or a few) good friends with share good advice with us in that same time of need.