I'm accumulating here any insights that come my way that appeal to me.
If you have any you'd like to share with others, please send them to me-
I might even include them!
abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact"
George Eliot
"What you say can preserve life or destroy it; so you must accept the consequences of your words."
Proverbs 18:21 TEV
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
William Saroyan
"Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions, they admit to insights, not answers."
Jerome Wiesner
Speed kills.
Slow just frustrates you to death.
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future.
When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
Yesterday is history,
Tomorrow a mystery,
Today is a gift from God,
That's why it's called the Present!
So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school,
until you lose five kilos, until you gain five kilos;
until you have kids, until your kids leave home;
until you start work, until you retire;
until you get married, until you get divorced;
until Friday night, until Sunday morning;
until you get a new car or home;
until your car or home is paid off;
until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter;
until the first or fifteenth;
until 'your song' comes on;
until you've had a drink, until you've sobered up;
until you die, until you are risen again;
to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy...
happiness is a journey not a destination.
Adapted from "Days of Healing, Days of Joy" by Earnie Larsen
SMILE!
Things might get worse slowly!
Time is a great healer, but a lousy beautician.
Early to bed early to rise, makes you healthy, but socially demised.
(Quoted by Kemsley- "Ginger Meggs")
WISDOM FOR SENIORS CITIZENS
1. I started with nothing. I still have most of it.
2. When did my wild oats turn to prunes and all-bran?
3. I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart.
4. Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
5. All reports are in. Life is now officially unfair.
6. If all is not lost, where is it?
7. It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
8. If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.
9. The first rule of holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
10. It was so different before everything changed.
11. Nostalgia isn't what it use to be.
12. Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the tree.
13. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
14. If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would have put them on my knees.
15. Lead me not into temptation (I can find the way myself).
16.When you are finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess?
17. A closed mouth gathers no feet.
18. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
19. Its not hard to meet expenses; they are everywhere.
20. It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.
What a wonderful life I've had.
I wish I'd realised it sooner.
Y2K PSALM
(A PSALM OF Y2K -- BASED ON PSALM 139)
O Lord, You have searched me, and known me.
You know when I sit down at my PC, and when I step away.
You understand my modem, and the whole e-mail thing.
You know the way I let the Internet waste my time, but too, how it has let me keep in contact with family and friends around the globe.
Even before I've touched the keyboard, You know what I'll write. It is hard for me to comprehend that You're standing at my shoulder every time I sign on.
You are awesome, Lord, and the Y2K uncertainties can't disturb You, like they do me and lots of people around me.
Where can I go that Your Spirit isn't with me?
Or could I get away from Your love and protection, if I was running in fear come January 1, 2000?
If my electricity shuts down, You are there. If I have to sleep under two down comforters to keep warm when my gas furnace fails to operate, You are there. If the city can't keep the water pumping, or my ATM is "out of service," You'll take care of me. If, on December 31, 1999, I cry, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night," even the darkness is not dark to you, and the night is bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike, to You.
You made me, Lord, and You love me.
Your works have no glitches, no shutdowns, no power failures.
My days, with or without computers, were planned by You before I was even born!
Help me to be faithful to You, and not panic when I hear of shortages, outages and chaos. Help me to be prepared to help others, physically and spiritually. Let me be an enemy of fear mongers, and help me to show those who are truly afraid of the future how to put their trust in You, Lord, the Almighty One.
Keep Your eye on me, O God, and touch my heart. Give me your peace, and make me share it with others. Keep my eyes on You, now and forever.
Author unknown (of the Y2K version, that is)
Youth is a gift of nature
Age is a work of art.
Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride-
Allow the experience of the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.
When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
When it's in your best interest, practice obedience.
Let others know when they've invaded your territory,
but avoid biting when a simple growl will do.
Take naps and stretch often.
Enjoy your food.
On hot days drink lots of water and lay under a shady tree.
Be loyal.
Never pretend to be something that you're not.
When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by
and nuzzle them gently.
Thrive on attention and let people touch you.
When you're happy, dance around and wag your whole body.
No matter how often you're scolded, don't buy into the guilt thing and pout- run right back and make friends.
Bond with your pack.
Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.
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Lord please help me to be the person my dog thinks I am.
I woke up early today, excited about all I can do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important.
My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.
Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or ... I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.
Today I can feel sad that I don't have more money or ... I can be glad that my finances encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide me away from waste.
Today I can grumble about my health or ... I can rejoice that I am alive.
Today I can lament over all that my parents didn't give me when I was growing up or ... I can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born.
Today I can cry because roses have thorns or ...I can celebrate that thorns have roses.
Today I can mourn my lack of friends or ... I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover new relationships.
Today I can whine because I have to go to work or ... I can shout for joy because I have a job to do.
Today I can complain because I have to go to school or.. eagerly open my mind and fill it with rich new tidbits of knowledge.
Today I can murmur dejectedly because I have to do housework or I can appreciate that I have a place to call home.
Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped. And here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping.
What today will be like is up to me. I get to choose what kind of day I will have!
Have a GREAT DAY ... unless you have other plans. Don Lyon
Marriage has less beauty but more safety
than the single life.
It's full of sorrow and full of joy.
It lies under more burdens but it is supported by all the strength of love
and those burdens are delightful.
16thC bishop quoted at the end of movie "Natural Forces".
