Thought For The Day TFTD

TFTD Eric Mahr

2012-02-10T05:16:00.001-05:00

"In a place where there is no man, BE a man"

Eric Aryeh Mahr

TFTD

2012-02-09T04:21:00.001-05:00

"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles." - Stephen R. Covey

TFTD

2012-02-07T07:52:00.001-05:00

"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

Benjamin Franklin

TFTD

2012-02-06T06:52:00.000-05:00

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength; move on."

Henry Rollins

TFTD

2012-02-04T06:00:00.001-05:00

"Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom.

Don't wish for fewer problems; wish for more skills." Jim Rohn

TFTD

2012-02-03T06:14:00.001-05:00

"The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind,

and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness." Dalai Lama

TFTD

2012-02-02T06:03:00.001-05:00

Belief is nothing but a state, an internal representation that governs behavior. It can be an empowering belief in possibility -- a belief that we will succeed in something or achieve something else. It can be a disempowering belief -- a belief that we can't succeed, that our limitations are clear, intractable, and overwhelming. If you believe in success, you'll be empowered to achieve it. If you believe in failure, those messages will lead you to experience that as well."

Anthony Robbins

TTFD - Worry Fear and Doubt

2012-02-01T06:58:00.001-05:00

Worry, Fear and Doubt are my enemies. ( Destructive)

When they present themselves, I dismiss them and immediately replace them and shift my focus to

ACTION, which is Constructive. fsm

TFTD

2012-01-31T05:15:00.001-05:00

"Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."

Eddie Rickenbacker

TFTD

2012-01-30T06:59:00.001-05:00

‎"Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want,

and all the emotional charge around it,

and place your attention on what you wish to experience"

Michael Beckwith

TFTD

2012-01-27T06:34:00.001-05:00

‎"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

Jim Rohn

TFTD

2012-01-26T10:31:00.001-05:00

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential

for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never."

Soren Kierkegaard

TFTD

2012-01-24T02:34:00.001-05:00

"Me we"

A poem by Muhammad Ali

Sourced by Rachael Mahr

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TFTD

2012-01-22T11:02:00.001-05:00

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie

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TFTD Passion vs Discipline

2012-01-21T08:50:00.000-05:00

Passion vs Discipline

Passion is simply an emotional state, and a temporary and unstable one at that. The reason passion gets so much credit is that it helps motivate action. And action is what generates results.

Look at it this way:
P = Passion
A = Action
R = Results

Given:
P causes A
A causes R

Conclusions:

P causes R
No problem there. That's logically correct.

R requires P
Nope. You can't infer this to be true from the givens.

But what if you also know this:
S causes A
S is not P

Now you can say that the statement "R requires P" is definitely false.

S = Self-Discipline

- Results come from actions (no action, no results)
- Passion can lead to action and therefore generate results
- Self-discipline can also lead to action and therefore generate results

Which is better though: passion or self-discipline?

Like any emotional state, passion waxes and wanes. Sometimes you're highly motivated. Sometimes you aren't. Passion has its peaks and valleys, so if you base your actions on your level of passion, your results will depend on your emotions. Feeling passionate? Great actions, great results. Feeling dispassionate? Weak actions, mediocre results.

Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.

Self-discipline is far more important than passion, especially in business. In fact, if you develop the quality of self-discipline to a high degree, it will put passion to shame.

Self-discipline allows you take action and therefore get results no matter what your emotional state. Where passion is erratic, self-discipline provides steadiness and stability. And because your emotions aren't in the way, your decisions are more likely to succeed because they'll be made from a state of disciplined intellect rather than from emotional peaks and valleys.

by Steve Pavlina

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TFTD

2012-01-19T13:37:00.001-05:00

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"

Richard M. DeVos

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

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TFTD

2012-01-18T07:06:00.001-05:00

"Champions aren't made in the gym, champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision."

Muhammad Ali

Sourced by Spencer Einhorn

TFTD

2012-01-17T06:21:00.000-05:00

"Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge."

Jim Rohn

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Thought For The Day

2012-01-16T06:03:00.001-05:00

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

What Is Persistence?

Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting.

When you work on any big goal, your motivation will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you'll feel motivated; sometimes you won't. But it's not your motivation that will produce results — it's your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don't feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.

Persistence will ultimately provide its own motivation. If you simply keep taking action, you'll eventually get results, and results can be very motivating.

TFTD

2012-01-15T08:50:00.001-05:00

"There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self"

Hemingway

TFTD

2012-01-14T08:53:00.001-05:00

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

Thought For The Day

2012-01-12T16:39:00.002-05:00

Rising requires energy. Falling just requires letting go.
Kenneth Kaufman

TFTD January 5

2012-01-05T09:23:00.003-05:00

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
You control your destiny, you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, NO, I won't do it, I won't behave this way anymore.
Leo Buscaglia
sourced by Jimmy Demesa

TFTD

2012-01-04T07:05:00.002-05:00

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration" James Allen
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." Shaw

TFTD

2012-01-03T07:11:00.002-05:00

<"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so." - Marcia Wieder http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

TFTD - January 2, 2012

2012-01-02T07:55:00.001-05:00

Whatever one vividly imagines: ardently desires; sincerely believes and enthusiastically acts upon acts upon must eventually come to pass

By planting the seed of desire in your mind it forms a nucleus with the power to attract everything needed for its fulfillment.

Create a plan of action and begin at once

Thoughts For The Day New Years Eve 2012

2011-12-31T09:20:00.002-05:00

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another voice. TS Elliot

And as we will; we open a book finding pages still blank. We will place words on them each of us in our own way. The book is entitled Opportunity. Its first page is New Years Day.......fsm
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Thought For The Day

2011-12-28T19:39:00.002-05:00

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

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Thought For The Day

2011-12-28T08:08:00.003-05:00

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." Denis Waitley
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Thought For The Day

2011-10-17T16:36:00.002-05:00

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." Lance Armstrong Sourced by RGorbaty

'To be healthy, all you have to do is be happy'

2011-09-14T05:55:00.002-05:00

September 12, 2011 Monday 13 Elul 5771 6:05 IST 'To be healthy, all you have to do is be happy' By HADAS MIDBARI/NO CAMELS
11/09/2011 Two Israeli doctors develop system called "Synapsot," or otherwise "Optimistic Health Promotion," that encourages patients to be healthy by being happy. Hadas Midbari writes for No Camels

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Based on that definition, two Israeli doctors, Dr. Dina Eisen and Dr. Lilach Meltski, have developed a system called "Synapsot," or otherwise "Optimistic Health Promotion," that encouraged patients to be healthy by being happy.

"It's really not much more complicated than that," say the doctors.

The origin of the word synapse comes from ancient Greek and means "to join together." The plural of synapse in Hebrew is Synapsot. Synapses are the points where two nerve ends meet, and where a message is passed along.

Synapses are therefore the connecting points in the brain between the outer reality and the inner perception. Our thoughts define what we feel about what is actually happening. We are able to give personal meaning and choose particular reactions to outside events as they occur. Our thought processes activate synapses that give us either happiness or sadness. And this reaction will not only affect our emotional well-being, say the Synapsot founders, but our physical health. According to Dr. Eisen, new synapses can be produced throughout life. The human brain is flexible and can produce "optimistic synapses" by learning and repeating actions, thoughts or words: "We found a way to create the exact chemical reaction in the brain generally induced by different types of pills, only in a natural way, using the system already existing in our bodies," Eisen told NoCamels. "It is the synapses activation that makes us either happy or sad."

Eisen's method is based on years of medical research worldwide. Two of the main studies have shown that a larger amount of Serotonin is being released into the synapses in the brain when a person smiles or says "thank you," explained Eisen. Serotonin release is a chemical reaction known to make people happier and is often used in anti-depression pills.

Eisen says that laughter and humor are also proven to be making people healthier. One of the studies that influenced Synapsot was a research with more than 800 male subjects with heart disease. The study showed that the happier and more optimistic men had 20 percent more chances of staying alive than the pessimistic ones.

To help people understand how to encourage happy thoughts, Synapsot created what they call a toolbox for optimistic health on their website. There readers can find articles on health and preventive medicine, the principles of optimistic health and links to books and additional sites.

Dr. Eisen also wrote her top five tips for optimistic health promotion, exclusively for NoCamels:

1. Hug a person at least 4 times a day – studies show that a warm touch with another person has positive physical effects on both the giver and receiver.

2. Say Thank you even for the smallest things – it's proven to be making new synapses connections in your brain as well as improving your attention skills.

3. Keep in close touch with your friends – people who have been through heart attacks are 40 percent less likely to suffer another when they have a close circle of friends.

4. Eat cashew nuts, avocado, whole wheats, sweat potato and spinach – they increase the level of serotonin in your brain.

5. Get 6-8 hours of sleep every night – sleeping balances the neurons in the brain back to their normal level.

Thought For The Day

2011-03-22T17:49:00.001-05:00

Five things that cannot be recovered in life

1. The Stone ................... after it's thrown, 2. The Word .................... after it's said, 3. The Occasion ................ after it's missed, 4. The Time .................... after it's gone.
5. A person..........................after they die Strive to make sure never to do an unkind act or say an unkind word to anyone else. Once it's done, it's done. You can't take it back. You may say, "I'm sorry," and the person may accept your apology, but you can be assured the hurt will always stay with them. Try to not miss any occasion - whether it's personal or business. Never miss an opportunity to show someone how much you care and never miss the chance to say "I love you." And if it's business, don't let an opportunity pass you by where you have the chance to increase your present business or start a new one. The one thing you don't ever want to ask is "What might have been?" Spend as much time as you can with family and friends. None of us knows how much time we have in this world, so use your time wisely. http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

Thought for The Day

2011-03-19T07:17:00.001-05:00

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thought For The Day

2011-01-26T19:38:00.002-05:00

Recently CNN was interviewing Ted Turner and they asked Ted how he kept going when his sailing team lost year after year and his baseball team was in last place for four years before going on to win the World Series. Without any hesitation Ted said, "I wasn't losing, I was learning how to win."

Thought For The Day

2011-01-03T02:49:00.001-05:00

To dream about achieving whatever you want is the the beauty of the human mind. To make those dreams a reality is the beauty of the human will. No dream comes true by sleeping in. I pray that in 2011 your 'WILL' not your 'want' allows your dreams to become a reality! Everyone 'wants' their dreams to come true but not everyone is 'willing' to make their dreams come true. Ryan Nece

Thought For The Day

2010-11-26T08:35:00.002-05:00

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie

Thought For The Day

2010-09-11T09:48:00.001-05:00

It is about how it is presented: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGEEamz7ZM Sourced by: Jennnifer Gorbaty

Thought For The Day

2010-09-06T11:08:00.001-05:00

Faber est suae quisque fortunae -latin "Every man is the artisan of his own fortune." (Appius Claudius Caecus) http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com Note: Sourced by NJC

Thought For The Day

2010-07-17T11:15:00.001-05:00

"Those who understand interest, EARN IT. Those who don't, PAY IT!" ~ Albert Einstein http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

Thought For The Day

2010-07-16T17:45:00.000-05:00

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Note: Sourced by David Nathan

Thought For The 4th of July

2010-07-04T09:31:00.001-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBTyTWOZCM

Thought For The Day

2010-07-03T15:38:00.001-05:00

The Declaration of Independence [Image] [Image] [Image] In Congress, July 4 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it; and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People. Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.— WE, THEREFORE, the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.—And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.Signed by ORDER and in BEHALF of the CONGRESS,
JOHN HANCOCK, PRESIDENT.
ATTEST.
CHARLES THOMSON, SECRETARY.
PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY JOHN DUNLAP.

Thought For The Day

2010-06-27T07:36:00.000-05:00

"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."

-Petrarch

Thought For The Day

2010-06-12T16:49:00.001-05:00

There are two times in a man's life when should not speculate; when he can't afford it, and when he can." Mark Twain

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." Francis Bacon

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers
The above were Sourced by my friend MARC ZUDAR

Thought For the Day

2010-05-30T18:02:00.000-05:00

Invictus
William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Thought For The Day

2010-05-17T19:26:00.000-05:00

"You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power."

- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Thought For The Day

2010-05-15T07:18:00.001-05:00

Do you love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Thought For The Day

2010-05-12T17:18:00.000-05:00

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Thought For The Day

2010-05-11T21:04:00.000-05:00

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
~ Paul Simon ~

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Thought For The Day

2010-05-10T19:16:00.000-05:00

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle

Thought For The Day

2010-05-08T08:15:00.001-05:00

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

- Mark Twain

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Thought For The Day

2010-05-05T17:08:00.000-05:00

... doors close in our universe and they sometimes slam shut, but as they do there is always a window that opens..the splendor and magic of life is in looking out the open window not listening to the reverberations of the closed slammed door.... fsm

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Thought For The Day

2010-04-20T07:11:00.000-05:00

Consider the postage stamp. Its usefulness consists of sticking to one thing until it gets there.

Josh Billings

SPAM from my ADDRESS BOOK - MY APOLOGIES

2010-04-01T10:41:00.000-05:00

My apologies BUT apparently some virus or something has infected my AOL account and emails have been sent out to my address book as coming from my email fsm36@aol.com

I assure you they are not from me, and I apologize if they have offended anyone..

I am trying to take corrective action. If any of you have received any please forward them so I can try to correct..

I may have to terminate this email address.

Thought For The Day

2010-03-29T09:17:00.000-05:00

"One cannot be selfless, because one's self is part of the equation."

Kenneth H. Kaufman

Thought For The Day

2010-03-24T16:13:00.000-05:00

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
- Helen Keller

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Thought for The Day

2010-03-23T05:57:00.000-05:00

"Only passion, great passion can elevate the soul to great things"

-Diderot

Note: Source Nick Ferarro

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Thought For The Day

2010-03-12T15:35:00.001-05:00

"There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation."

-Seneca

Thought For The Day

2010-03-09T05:29:00.001-05:00

"You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value."

ERIC BROWN

Thought For The Day

2010-03-08T08:53:00.000-05:00

You can only be disillusioned if you were once illusioned.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Thought For The Day

2010-03-01T08:18:00.001-05:00

"The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm."

-Pablo Picasso

Thought For The Day

2010-02-28T17:15:00.000-05:00

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin

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2010-02-25T18:50:00.001-05:00

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

Thought For The Day

2010-02-24T19:27:00.000-05:00

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
Aynn Rand Atlas Shrugged

Thought For The Day

2010-02-23T19:19:00.001-05:00

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Thought For The Day

2010-02-22T20:08:00.000-05:00

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost

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Thought For The Day

2010-02-21T17:27:00.001-05:00

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare
As You Like It, 2. 7

Thought For The Day

2010-02-20T16:58:00.000-05:00

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

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2010-02-19T20:07:00.001-05:00

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anaïs Nin

Thought For The Day

2010-02-18T17:26:00.000-05:00

A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.
Charlie Daniels

Note: Written en route to the funeral for his friend, Ronnie Van Zant of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd

Thought For The Day

2010-02-16T15:26:00.000-05:00

The philosophy of mine on earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. ~Jessi Lane Adams

Thought For The Day

2010-02-15T18:15:00.000-05:00

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,

to match your nature with Nature. "

Joseph Campbell

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Thought For The Day

2010-02-13T19:50:00.000-05:00

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones,
and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.

Thought For The Day

2010-02-01T19:14:00.000-05:00

Someday, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- -- Phillips Brooks

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2010-01-27T17:28:00.000-05:00

"I've learned that I have the strength to change."

- Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part II

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2010-01-26T16:54:00.000-05:00

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond

by E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

Thought For The Day

2010-01-23T18:19:00.001-05:00

" Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens.
He has only one thought on his mind:
To be able to run faster than the fastest lion.
If he cannot, then he will be eaten.

Every morning in Africa a lion awakens.
He has only one thought on his mind:
To be able to run faster than the slowest gazelle.
If he cannot, he will die of hunger.

Whether you choose to be a gazelle or a lion is of no consequence.
It is enough to know that with the rising of the sun, you must run.
And you must run faster than you did yesterday or you will die.
This is the race of life."
--- African Proverb ---

Thought For The Day

2010-01-21T08:43:00.000-05:00

" All your life you are told the things you cannot do.
All your life they will say you're not good enough
Or strong enough or talented enough.
They'll say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight
Or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this.
THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no
Until all the no's become meaningless.
All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
They will tell you no
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."
--- Nike Ad ---

Thought For The Day

2010-01-20T07:25:00.001-05:00

We do not see merely because we have eyes, we see because there is light. The amount of light you carry determines your glow ! Make your day shine.......

Eric Brown

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2010-01-19T07:24:00.000-05:00

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."

-Robert South

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2010-01-18T11:11:00.000-05:00

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' ... I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true." --Martin Luther King Jr.

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2010-01-15T16:50:00.001-05:00

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon

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2010-01-09T17:41:00.001-05:00

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus (55 - 135), Roman Philosopher

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2010-01-06T18:56:00.000-05:00

INNER STRENGTH

If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
If you can overlook when people take things out on you when,
through no fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
If you can do all these things...
Then you are probably the FAMILY DOG!

Note: Sourced by Douglas Cohn

Thought For The Day

2010-01-05T18:55:00.001-05:00

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

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2010-01-05T08:36:00.000-05:00

"No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined."
~Harry E. Fosdick

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2010-01-02T21:02:00.000-05:00

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton

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2010-01-01T20:03:00.000-05:00

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
T. S. Eliot

Thought for The Day - A New Decade 2010

2009-12-31T18:33:00.000-05:00

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

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Thought For The Day

2009-12-15T00:36:00.000-05:00

VALLEY FORGE

As we enjoy the holiday season, whether it is Chanukah or Christmas, one has to wonder how many Americans give any thought to the victory of the Revolutionary Army over the Hessians on December 26, 1776.....yes, December 26th, not Christmas Day as many of us were taught in school. Actually, I wonder how many kids in school today are taught how important this battle was to the success of the War of Independence.

Lets spend a few minutes and revisit this event........

The war had been going badly for the Americans. Since the British captured New York City in the summer, the American army had lost every battle and finally had crossed the Delaware near Philadelphia. What a disaster it had been. Not only the defeats, but the Hessians had been brutal with any wounded or prisoners taken. Actually the saying, Take no prisoners" could well apply here.

At Valley Forge Washington's army was down to around 7,000 men,but many of them were not fit for duty. Most were without proper clothing and food was scarce. Civilians who cheered and showered them with food and gifts as they marched to defend New York City now avoided them. In fact thousands of Americans had renounced the Revolution and renewed their pledge of allegiance to King George III. As for the army, desertions were occurring every day and most of the enlistments would expire at the end of the month.

The Continental Congress was moving from Philadelphia to Baltimore and there was now talk that Washington was not up to the job. Washington and his council of Generals recognized that something desperate had to be done. They arrived at a plan to seize the initiative, concentrate forces, strike hard and withdraw quickly. The password for this attack was "Victory or Death".

So around midnight on December 25th, in the middle of a howling storm, Washington led his troops across the Delaware River to strike at the Hessians camped in Trenton. Unknown to Washington, because of the weather, two of his generals had called off their troops from participating in the battle plan to attack Trenton from different directions.

Incidentally, the British in Brunswick (twenty-five miles from Trenton) had received certain intelligence that the Americans planned to attack Trenton. They conveyed this to the Commander of the Hessians on Christmas Day, but he concluded that with the weather this bad, nothing would happen for the present.

Around 8:00 AM on December 26th the American army of 2,400 men attacked. The Hessians were routed. More than 900 were killed, wounded, or captured. The remainder of the Hessians had escaped to Brunswick because the planned encirclement of Trenton was not possible due to the aborting of the attack by two generals. The entire battle lasted 45 minutes.

Washington allowed the Hessians officers to retain their swords and instructed his men to treat the wounded and prisoners fairly.

It is reputed that when the Hessian officer, who succeeded the Commanding Officer who was fatally wounded, thanked Washington for the mercy shown his troops, Washington replied something like, "We do not fight for glory. We fight for our liberty, our freedom as free men." This was said to a Hessian officer who was present when his troops committed atrocities in the fighting around New York City.

The American army then retired across the Delaware River before the British could arrive from Brunswick.

This battle did not win the war,but it turned the tide of opinion, both in America and Europe.....especially Britain and France.

Just days before this battle Thomas Paine published his paper The American Crisis which starts out, "These are the times that try men's souls..."

Question: Would there be an America as we know it today if George Washington had not pulled off this miraculous victory?

Thought For The Day

2009-12-12T21:58:00.001-05:00

"The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity"
- Spock (sd 5630.7)

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2009-12-09T05:57:00.000-05:00

"What is there to do with life but to live it to the full?"

-Arnold Glasow

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2009-12-08T07:19:00.000-05:00

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Anatole France

Note: Sourced by Richard Einhorn

Thougt For The Day

2009-12-07T07:04:00.000-05:00

Given any condition anyone is in, good or challenged, we only have two choices to make: Change the condition or Adapt to it .

Eric Brown

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2009-12-04T12:32:00.000-05:00

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." George Washington

Thought For The Day

2009-12-03T17:51:00.000-05:00

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

Thought For The Day

2009-11-28T09:25:00.000-05:00

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole

Thought For The Day

2009-11-27T17:20:00.000-05:00

"Pain is your friend, your ally it will tell you when you are seriously injured. It will keep you awake and angry and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain? .... it lets you know you're not dead yet.

Viggo Mortensen (Master Chief John Urgayle) in G.I. Jane

Thought For Thanksgiving Day

2009-11-26T08:20:00.000-05:00

To Acknowledge and to being extremely grateful for the blessings we have been bestowed ..... To wish for ALL that today serves as a beginning of moments of recognition of blessings, and gratitude for what life has provided and continues to holds in store.

Thanksgiving is not a day it is a way.

fsm

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Thought For The Day

2009-11-25T08:01:00.001-05:00

"Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push."
(Joann Thomas)

Note: Sourced by Sandi Bouldin

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look will easily unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the color of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

	"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

	Epictetus (55 - 135), Roman Philosopher

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