Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you will not find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness. Eckhart Tolle

squirrell. quack.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck……………….is it really a duck or a decoy…………hmmmm

Big thinking precedes great achievement."
— Wilferd Peterson

“Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision.”
— Anonymous

“The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”
— John Scully

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“Vision without execution is hallucination.”
— Thomas Edison

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to br waited for: but rather something to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback—or the start of a new kind of development."

lol!

Do not mix laxatives and sleeping pills

Experience is something you get right after you no longer need it

“If you’ve the guts to stick it out……you’re going to make it.”
Brian Hays

Failure is a success if we learn from it

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
Thomas Jefferson

God Bless America
Julie et al

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

Elbert Hubbard

Fairin, that’s a great one!

Re: your avatar – but you probably are too young to remember the white blocks of lard with the little yellow dye packet on top of it, under the wrapping. I was very young but it was my privilege to mix the two together so it would look like butter. And now we try to stay away from lard; however, the best Tamales are made here in Yuma (probably by illegals) and they use tons of lard. Yum, yum.

“The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.”
Isak Dinesen

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind…. ???

“There are no old people nowadays; they are either “wonderful for their age” – or dead."
Mary Pettibone Poole

(This week, I’m not sure which one I am……)

bump

“The 2nd mouse gets the cheese” and “The only free lunch is found in mousetraps”

Julie,
Sounds like a good recipe for a G.C. Very interesting by the way. Do you miss it at all?
As a Kid I lived in North Park for a bit. Spent a lot of time in Balboa Park.
Strange… as I’m typing this, my clock is chiming out the tune that reminds me of Balboa Park the most. (clock tower) It was a very peaceful place for me…

Michael, And then you reach an age where you just don’t give a damn about how others feel; however, I never intentionally do harm to anyone.
:-)

“Sometimes i see people at their worst which is their best… and sometimes i have to look at the wound and not the person”…

me… on a hard night at the jail… :( ….

Carol,
So true.
It seems the longer I kick around this life, the more I feel and see the points of others. I don’t always agree, but the empathy is there.

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 your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

A part of my FAV poem given to me by my Mom. " You begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead with the grace of a woman not the grief of a child, and you learn to build all your roads on today, because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn"………

just saw that, Michael. good one :-)

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Proverbs 8:12

Do you know what is peaceful?

The silence of wisdom…

Jake from the Wizards of Wanderly

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

Funny one Ring-o.

very clever…..thanks

I would not like them
here or there.
I would not like them
anywhere.
I do not like
green eggs and spam.
I do not like them,
Scam-I-am!

damn spamn

I feel like a Caged Bird and I’m not singing……..
Julie Brown referring to Maya Angelou’s first book

~ All great achievements require time. ~
Maya Angelou

~ Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.” ~
Maya Angelou

~ I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~
Maya Angelou

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

Being in business, every day I notice the edges are more diminished. Very sad….

KISS: keep it simple stupi………..

Great is he that conquers the world, but greater is he who conquers his own mind.

…and one more gem as it relates to creativity:

“My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.” [Hedley Lamarr]
{:^)

Bravo… Carol!
Some favorites of my own that come to mind:

“Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” [Winston Churchill]

“It is better to fail in originality, than succeed in imitation.” [Herman Melvin]

“Blessed is that man who has found his work” [Elbert Hubbard]

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
Dear Abby
(apply this however or to whatever you wish…..)
:-)

…. Herman Melville

Pretty soon, Frank………

Now THAT is the most inspirational and truthful quote of them all!!!

People who DO love their Country, and the principles it was founded on, can and most certainly WILL change it!

~ For that is our unyielding faith – that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. ~
Barack Obama

~ Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate – yes, give especially to those you don’t want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have! ~

“If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.”
Tallulah Bankhead

Stephen, I’m a big Eastwood fan and was quoting that same phase to my teenager just the other day. Did you see the time Clint was on his way to gun down three bad guys. As he walked to meet them, there was a guy nailing caskets together at a slow pace in the heat. Clint looked over at him and said “Your going to need three more of those” The casket maker then started nailing at a fast pace. He knew he would have three more customers in a few minutes after Clint was done with them.

Hi Robert, I remember Wimpy very well. lol lol