"Sometimes you're the bird, sometimes you're the windshield."
"I never met a credit card I couldn't exceed."
"If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards."
"Do it tomorrow. You've made enough mistakes today."
"Everything's coming your way? You're in the wrong lane."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt"
"A coincidence is a small miracle where God chose to remain anonymous."
"Happy is the person who can laugh at himself."
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but all agree it is old enough to know better."
"He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. --Joan L. Brannon"
"To a friend's house, the road is never long. --Anonymous"
"For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. --Larry Eisenberg "
"It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens."
"The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. --G.B. Stern, Robert Louis Stevenson"
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. --John Morley"
"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. --George Halas"
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --Will Rogers"
"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. --Warren Buffett"
"I can teach a man to sail, but I can never teach him why. --Timothy E. Thatcher "
"Only God is in a position to look down on anyone. --Sarah Brown"
"No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you. --Althea Gibson"
"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart. --Mort Walker"
"The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging. --Molly Ivins"
"When the wine is in, the wit is out. --English proverb"
"The best proof of love is trust. --Joyce Brothers"
"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. --Carl Sandburg"
"Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. --William Shakespeare"
"It's a lot better to hope than not to. --Benjamin J. Stein"
"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. --Marva N. Collins"
"Don't try to impress. Let others have the fun of impressing you. James R. Fisher Jr"
"Nothing of consequence was ever achieved without enthusiasm. James R. Fisher
Jr"
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow.
It empties today of its strength." - Corrie TenBoom
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Andy Rooney: Tips for Handling Telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work !!
(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answer s the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or u tility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas:
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ----I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
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These are entries to a Washington Post competition asking for a rhyme with the MOST romantic first line ... and the LEAST romantic second line:
Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss ... but I only slept with you, because I was pissed.
I thought that I could love no other ... Until, that is, I met your brother.
Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you. ... But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head.
Of loving beauty you float with grace ... If only you could hide your face.
Kind, intelligent, loving and hot ... This describes everything you are not.
I want to feel your sweet embrace ... But don't take that paper bag off of your face.
I love your smile, your face, and your eyes ... Damn, I'm good at telling lies!
My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife: ... Marrying you screwed up my life.
I see your face when I am dreaming ... That's why I always wake up screaming.
My love, you take my breath away ... What have you stepped in to smell this way?
My feelings for you no words can tell ... Except for maybe "Go To Hell."
What inspired this amorous rhyme? ... Two parts vodka, one part lime.
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If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to
a garage makes you a mechanic.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never
tried before.
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the
waist change places.
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks
before you need it.
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real
world.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never
cease to be amused.
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Useful Expressions For Those HIGH STRESS Days
** Well, aren't we just a ray of sunshine?
** Don't bother me. I'm living happily ever after.
** Do I really look like a people person?
** This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.
** I pretend to work. They pretend to pay me.
** You! Off my planet !!
** Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap! You choose.
** Practice random acts of intelligence & senseless acts of
self-control.
** Did the aliens forget to remove the probe?
** Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
** And your cry-baby whiny opinion would be...?
** I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 30 years.
** Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.
** Do they ever shut up on your planet?
** I'm just working here till a good fast-food job opens up.
** I'm trying to imagine you with a personality.
** A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.
** Stress is when you wake up screaming & you realize you haven't
fallen asleep yet.
** I can't remember if I'm the good twin or the evil one.
** How many times do I have to flush before you go away?
** I just want revenge. Is that so wrong?
** I work 40 hours a week to be this poor.
** Can I trade this job for what's behind door #2?
** Too many freaks, not enough circuses.
** Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.
** Earth is full. Go home.
** Is it time for your medication or mine?
** Aw, did I step on your poor little bitty ego?
** I plead contemporary insanity.
** How do I set a laser printer to stun?
** I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.
** When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.
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"THE FORGOTTEN 10 OTHER COMMANDMENTS"
Thou shall not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all human
activities.
Thou shall not be fearful, for most of the things we fear never come to
pass.
Thou shall not cross bridges before you come to them, for no one yet has
succeeded in accomplishing this.
Thou shall face each problem as it comes. You can only handle one
at a time anyway.
Thou shall not take problems to bed with you, for they make very poor
bedfellows.
Thou shall not borrow other people's problems. They can better
care for them than you can.
Thou shall not try to relive yesterday for good or ill, it is forever
gone. Concentrate on what is happening in your life and be happy
now!
Thou shall be a good listener, for only when you listen do you hear
different ideas from your own. It is hard to learn something new
when you are talking, and some people do know more than you do.
Thou shall not become "bogged down" by frustration, for 90% of
it is rooted in self-pity and will only interfere with positive action.
Thou shall count thy blessings, never overlooking the small ones, for a
lot of small blessings add up to a big one.
~ Author Unknown ~
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Moving Thoughts
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
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To belittle is to be little.
Speak gently - it is better far to rule by love
than fear. Speak gently - let no harsh words mar the good we might do
here.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could find other things
as easily as we find fault?
No man has it so good but that two or three words
can dishearten, and there is no calamity but a few right words can
hearten.
To listen well is as to talk well and is as
essential to all true conversation.
The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are
the greatest men.
A small unkindness is a great offense.
I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight
that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet felt a
twinge of regret for being a little too kind.
Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible
some people read.
Instruction may end in the schoolroom, but
education ends only with life.
Talent knows what to do; tact knows when and how to
do it.
Character development is the true aim of education.
Nothing is done finally and right. Nothing is known
positively and completely.
Confront improper conduct, not by retaliation, but
by example.
Firmness is that admirable quality in ourselves
that is merely stubbornness in others.
It is easier to be critical than correct.
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and
persecute living ones.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be
difficult.
An obstinate man does not hold opinions - they hold
him.
The aim of education is to teach us how to think,
not what to think.
Men are apt to settle a question rightly when it is
discussed freely.
Make the most of the best and the least of the
worst.
If we were faultless we should not be so much
annoyed by the defects of others.
He surely is most in need of another's patience,
who has none of his own.
In youth we run into difficulties; in age
difficulties run into us.
Making excuses doesn't change the truth.
Remember there is blue sky behind the darkest
cloud.
The man who rows the boat doesn't have time to rock
it.
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
The cloud that darkens the present hour may
brighten all our future days.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to
live up to them.
Men do not fail; they give up trying.
Consider wherein you agree with your opponent
rather than wherein you differ.
Think little of what others think of you.
Doing nothing is the more tiresome job in the world
because you cannot quit and rest.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise man grows it under his feet.
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day.
Smile for the joy of others.
Remember there are no bad days - some are just
better than others.
It is good to let a little sunshine out as well as
in.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Don't spend your days stringing and tuning your
instrument - start making music now.
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.
All people smile in the same language.
A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things
straight.
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Beauty Tips
For attractive lips, Speak words of kindness
For lovely eyes, Seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, Share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, Let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, Walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.
Remember, If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, The figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, Because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she
lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, And the beauty of a woman with passing years-only grows!
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Remember the five simple
rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
No one can go back and make a brand new
start.
Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun
without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the
tears, and light for the way. Disappointments are like road
bumps, they slow you down a bit but you enjoy the smooth road
afterwards. Don't stay on the
bumps too long. Move on!
When you feel down because
you didn't get what you want, just sit tight and be happy, because God
has thought of something better to give you.
When
something happens to you, good or bad, consider what it means.
There's
a purpose to life's events, to teach you how to laugh more or not to
cry too hard.
You
can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be
loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth.
It's better to lose your
pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of
pride.
We spend too much time
looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we
already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.
Never abandon an old
friend. You will never find one who can take his place.
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Rules For Work:
1. Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00
and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is
refreshing.
2. If it's really a rush job, run in and interrupt me every
10 minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps. Even
better, hover behind me, and advise me at every keystroke.
3. Always leave without telling anyone where you're going.
It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where
you are.
4. If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me
which is priority. I am psychic.
5. Do your best to keep me late. I adore this office and
really have nowhere to go or anything to do. I have no life
beyond work.
6. If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. If that gets
out, it could mean a promotion.
7. If you don't like my work, tell everyone. I like my name
to be popular in conversations. I was born to be whipped.
8. If you have special instructions for a job, don't write
them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done.
No use confusing me with useful information.
9. Never introduce me to the people you're with. I have no
right to know anything. In the corporate food chain, I am
plankton. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions
will identify them.
10. Be nice to me only when the job I'm doing for you could
really change your life and send you straight to manager's
hell.
11. Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any
and it's nice to know someone is less fortunate. I especially
like the story about having to pay so many taxes on the bonus
check you received for being such a good manager.
12. Wait until my yearly review and THEN tell me what my
goals SHOULD have been. Give me a mediocre performance rating
with a cost of living increase. I'm not here for the money
anyway.
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CARROTS, EGGS, or COFFEE BEANS??
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how
things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make
it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It
seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. Her mother took her
to the kitchen.
She filled three pots with water.
In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the
last she placed ground coffee beans.
She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes
she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them
in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she
ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter,
she asked, "Tell me what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and
noted that they were soft. She then asked her to take an egg and break
it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled , as she
tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked. "What's the point, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same
adversity--boiling water--but each reacted differently. The carrot went
in strong, hard and unrelenting. However after being subjected to the
boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile.
Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But, after
sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. the
ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling
water
they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. " When adversity
knocks on your
door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot , an egg, or a coffee
bean?"
Think of this: Which am I?
Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, do I
wilt
and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the
heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after death , a breakup, a
financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and
stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and
tough with a stiff
spirit and a hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water,
the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it
releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things
are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.
When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest do
you
elevate to another level? How do you handle Adversity?
ARE YOU A CARROT, AN EGG OR A COFFEE BEAN?
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"How To Stay
Young, Happy & Healthy"
Throw
out non-essential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the
doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. If you really
need a grouch, there are probably a few dozen of your relatives to do
the job.
Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening
...whatever. Just never let the brain idle.
Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young... that is all that
you can afford. When they are in college... that is all that you can
afford. When they are grown and you are on retirement... that is all
that you can afford!
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so
much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.
The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is
with us our entire life is ... ourselves.
Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets,
keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies ... whatever. Your home is your
refuge.
Cherish your health. If it is good ... preserve it. If it is unstable
... improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve ... get help.
Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign
country... but not guilt.
Tell the people you love, that you love them ... at every opportunity.
Remember ...
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away
~Author
Unknown~
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"Once in a while invite the person in
line behind you to go ahead of you."
"Send your mother-in-law flowers on your spouse's birthday. H.
Jackson Brown Jr."
"Be as friendly to the janitor as to the chairman of the board. H.
Jackson Brown Jr."
"Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your
manners. H. Jackson Brown Jr."
"When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.
H. Jackson Brown Jr."
"Don't dismiss a good idea simply because you don't like the
source. H. Jackson Brown Jr."
"Pray. There's immeasurable power in it. H. Jackson Brown Jr."
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. H. Jackson Brown
Jr."
"Leave a quarter where a child can find it. H. Jackson Brown
Jr."
"When it comes to worrying or painting a picture, know when to
stop. H. Jackson Brown Jr."
"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. -Doug
Floyd"
"The mind is like a TV set, when it goes blank, it's a good idea to
turn off the sound."
"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and
which to burn."
"If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
--Unknown"
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you
going. --Jim Ryun"
"Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off unless you stop
pedaling.--Claude Pepper"
"Maybe you're right" can have a disarming effect in an
argument.--Unknown"
"When you're too busy for friends, you're too
busy.--Unknown""
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It
goes on.--Unknown"
"Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue.--Unknown"
"Live so that when your children think of fairness and
integrity, they think of you.--Unknown""
"You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging
everyone else's.--Unknown"
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it.--Unknown"
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the
reason so few engage in it.--Unknown"
"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to
follow you.--Unknown"
"Success is never final, but failure can be.--Unknown"
"More things grow in the garden than the gardener
sows.--Unknown"
"Where there is great love, there are always
miracles.--Unknown"
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by
their acts.--Unknown"
"Forgiveness is a gift of high value; yet, its cost is
nothing.--Unknown"
"Laurels don't make much of a cushion.--Unknown"
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"Watch your
thoughts, they become your words
Watch your words,
they become your actions
Watch your
actions, they become your habits
Watch your
habits, they become your character
Watch your
character, it becomes your destiny."
~ Author Unknown ~
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A
better understanding of our older citizens...
The story......When a senior died in the geriatric ward of a hospital
near
Dundee, Scotland, it was felt that she had left nothing of value. Then
the
nurses, going through her possessions, found this poem. Its quality so
impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse
in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Ireland. The lady's sole
bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the
News Magazine of the North Ireland Association for Mental Health. A
slide presentation has also been made based on the poem.
The
Poem:
What
do you see, nurses, what do you see,
what
are you thinking when you're looking at me?
A
crabby old woman, not very wise,
uncertain
of habit, with faraway eyes.
Who
dribbles her food and makes no reply
when
you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you'd try!
"Who
seems not to notice the things that you do,
and
forever is losing a stocking or shoe.
Who,
resisting or not, lets you do as you will
with
bathing and feeding, the long day to fill.
I'll
tell you who I am as I sit here so still.
I'm
a small child of ten with a father and mother,
brothers
and sisters, who love one another.
A
young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet,
dreaming
that soon now a lover she'll meet.
A
bride soon at twenty -- my heart gives a leap,
remembering
the vows that I promised to keep.
At
twenty-five now, I have young of my own
who
need me to guide and a secure happy home.
A
woman of thirty, my young now grown fast,
bound
to each other with ties that should last.
At
forty my young sons have grown
and
are gone, but my man's beside me to see I don't mourn.
At
fifty once more babies play round my knee,
again
we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark
days are upon me, my husband is dead;
I
look at the future, shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing young of their own,
and
I think of the years and the love that I've known.
I'm
now an old woman and nature is cruel;
'tis
jest to make old age look like a fool.
The
body, it crumbles, grace and vigor depart,
there
is now a stone where I once had a heart.
But
inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells,
and
now and again my battered heart swells.
I
remember the joys, I remember the pain,
and
I'm loving and living life over again.
I
think of the years - all too few, gone too fast -
and
accept the stark fact that nothing can last.
So
open your eyes, nurses, open and see,
not
a crabby old woman; look closer -- see ME!!
Remember this poem when you next meet an old person. We will one day
be there, too.
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The Seattle Special
Olympics
A few years ago, at the
Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all
physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the
100-yard dash.
At the gun, they all started out, not exactly in a dash, but with a
relish to run the race to the finish and win. All, that is, except one
little boy who stumbled on the asphalt, tumbled over a couple of times,
and began to cry.
The other eight heard the boy cry. They slowed down and looked back.
Then they all turned around and went back; every one of them.
One girl with Down's Syndrome bent down and kissed him and said,
"This
will make it better." Then all nine linked arms and walked together
to
the finish line. Everyone in the stadium stood, and the cheering went on
for several minutes. People who were there are still telling the story.
Why? Because deep down we know this one thing: What matters in this life
is more than winning for ourselves. What matters in this life is helping
others win, even if it means slowing down and changing our course. If
you pass this on, we may be able to change our hearts as well as someone
else's; "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle"
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GET A TRANSFER
If you are on the Gloomy
Line,
Get a transfer.
If you're inclines to fret
and pine,
Get a transfer.
Get off the track of doubt
and gloom,
Get on the Sunshine Track -
there's room -
Get a transfer.
If you're on the Worry Train,
Get a transfer
You must not stay there and
complain,
Get a transfer.
The Cheerful Cars are passing
through,
And there's lots of room for
you -
Get a transfer.
If you're on the Grouchy
Track,
Get a transfer.
Just take a Happy Special
back,
Get a transfer.
Jump on the train and pull
the rope,
That lands you at the station
Hope -
Get a transfer.
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AT SET OF SUN
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you
have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one
word
That eased the heart of him
who heard -
Once glance most kind,
That fell like sunshine where
it went -
Then you may count that day
well spent.
But, if, through all the
livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by
yea or nay -
If, through it all
You've nothing done that you
can trace
That brought the sunshine to
one face -
No act most small
That helped some soul and
nothing cost -
Then count that day as worse
than lost.
by: George Eliot
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MY EVENING PRAYER
If I have wounded any soul
to-day,
If I have caused one foot to
go astray,
If I have walked in my own
willful way -
Good Lord, forgive!
If I have uttered idle words
or vain,
If I have turned aside from
want or pain,
Lest I myself should suffer
through the strain -
Good Lord, forgive.
If I have craved for joys
that are not mine,
If I have let my wayward
heart repine,
Dwelling on things of earth,
not things divine -
Good Lord, forgive.
If I have been perverse, or
hard, or cold,
If I have longed for shelter
in Thy fold,
When Thou hast given me some
part to hold -
Good Lord, forgive.
Forgive the sins I have
confessed to Thee,
Forgive the secret sins I do
not see,
That which I know not,
Father, teach Thou me -
Help me to live.
by: Charles H. Gabriel
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TO KNOW ALL IS TO FORGIVE ALL
If I knew you and you knew
me-
If both of us could clearly
see,
And with an inner sight
divine
The meaning of your heart and
mine-
I'm sure that we would differ
less
And clasp our hands in
friendliness;
Our thoughts would pleasantly
agree
If I knew you, and you knew
me.
If I knew you and you knew
me,
As each one knows his own
self, we
Could look each other in the
face
And see therein a truer
grace.
Life has so many hidden woes,
So many thorns for every
rose;
The "why" of things
our hearts would see,
If I knew you and you knew
me.
by: Nixon Waterman
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A
Friendship By Any Other Name
No one criticizes the young rose when it's only
a small bud and not yet open. It is beautiful
right where it is, in the course of its growth.
No one points at the thorns and complains
that the rose needs water and sunshine to grow
and someone to cultivate the ground. We simply
gaze in wonder at its beauty, from bud to
full blossom.
The same beauty is true of friendship. Like
the rose, it is beautiful in each of its seasons.
Don't point out its shortcomings or potential
faults. Never focus on its weakness. With time,
love, nurturing, and faith, friendship will grow.
Take time to stop and breathe in its fragrance
and appreciate its development.
by
John C. Maxwell
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