Things Learned Along the Way

by blondie 431 Replies latest jw friends

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  talesin

  If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade!

  -anonymous

  (blondie - I love emerson, thanks for that as well as your great spirit, keeping the 'good stuff' afloat; you're an inspiration!)
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  blondie

  Thanks, talesin. It's been a rough day and I need perspective.

  Blondie
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  simplesally

  Every miracle begins with a problem.
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  talesin

  rough day?

  here, sweetie {{{{{blondie}}}}}
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  Hunyadi

  "In a heart that is empty, there is room for nothing. In a heart that is full, there is room for everything."

  - antonio porche

  I always remember these words when I think I can no longer tolorate someone or something. Sometimes it works.

  Hunyadi
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  xenawarrior

  "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud"

  ~Sophocles

  "No legacy is so rich as honesty"

  ~ William Shakespeare

  "It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head"

  ~Unknown
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  Love_Truth

  "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with their fellows. Still less room is there for those who deride or slight what is done by those who actually bear the brunt of the day; nor yet for those others who always profess that they would like to take action, if only the conditions of life were not what they actually are. The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder. Well for these men if they succeed; well also, though not so well, if they fail, given only that they have nobly ventured, and have put forth all their heart and strength. It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and the valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who "but for the vile guns would have been a soldier." -Teddy Roosevelt
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  blondie

  Eleanor Roosevelt:

  When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Marian Wright Edelman:

  If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time.
  Marian Wright Edelman:

  You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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  Mac

  "Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong"

  Buscaglia

  mac
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  blondie

  Thanks, mac. I love(d) Leo and his approach.