Get your act together!

"It is not the critic who counts,
not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbled,
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, sweat & blood;
who strives valiently;
who errs, comes short again & again;
who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions, and
spends himself in a worthy cause;
who, at 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.''

-- Pres. Theodore Roosevelt


Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile.

smile with the rising sun!

Three little birds





"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")

Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't worry!
"'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right" - I won't worry!
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, oh no!
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

------- Bob Marley

Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile.

Today's quotes

Women are like tea bags. We don't know our true strength till we are in hot water --Eleonor Roosevelt

Like water, be gentle & strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, & strong enough to rise up & reshape the world.




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Good thoughts

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time.
Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." ~ M. Scott Peck

You may delay, but time will not." ~Benjamin Franklin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


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Today's quote

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow -- Albert Einstein

In all things, it is better to hope than to despair -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Dum spiro, spero (latin), "While I breath, I hope" --Latin proverb


When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. I just hope I win this battle.



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Today's quote

"The one certainty about the time ahead..
is that there will be turbulent times,
& in turbulent times, our first task as an organization
is to make sure of our capacity for survival,
to make sure of our structural strength & soundness,
of our capacity to survive a blow,
to adapt to sudden change & to avail of new opportunities
EVEN in the midst of turmoil & change.

--adapted from Peter Drucker




Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile.

Invictus

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 bludgeoning 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.

William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903



Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile.