LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS

All you need is love.  --John Lennon

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your  destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.  --Gary Sinise

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION

The value of a man resides in what he gives  and not in what he is capable of receiving. --Albert Einstein LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Love never claims, it ever gives.  --Mohandas K. Gandhi  LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS  We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful  company is riddled with failures. --James E. Burke  INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the  life-long attempt to acquire it. --Albert Einstein LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.  --Jean Anouilh  LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS  Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe,  and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! --Paul J. Meyer  INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION Experience is a hard teacher because she gives  the test first, the lessons afterward.  --Vernon Law The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.       --  James Openheim “Customer service is not a department...it's an attitude.” LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS One word frees us of all the weight and  pain in life. That word is Love. --Sophocles  LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS  The best thing about the future is  that it comes one day at a time. --Abraham Lincoln  INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION We were born to succeed, not to fail. --Henry David Thoreau LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Love is perfect kindness.  --Joseph Campbell  LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS  Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. --Malcolm Forbes  INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION In times of change, the learner will inherit the earth while the  learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.  –-Eric Hoffer LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves  works miracles in our lives.  --Louise L. Hay  LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS  Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.  --Rumi  INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION The point of power is always in the present moment.  --Louise L. Hay LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS  Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.  --Rumi  LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS   Everyone has been made for some particular work,  and the desire for that work has  been put in every heart.  --Rumi  INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION  It may be that the satisfaction I need depends  on my going away, so that when I've gone and  come back, I'll find it at home.  --Rumi

something to ponder

I will be there.
......If one day you feel like crying...Call me.

I don't promise that I will make you laugh,But I can cry with you

If one day you want to run away--Don't be afraid to call me.

I don't promise to ask you to stop...But I can run with you

If one day you don't want to listento anyone...Call me.

I promise to be there for you.And I promise to be very quiet.

But if one day you call...And there is no answer...

Come fast to see me.Perhaps I need you.

The True meaning of Life is to Plant Trees under whose shade you do not Expect to Sit.

quotessssss n movies toooo

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
A friend is someone who you can tell your complaints; a good friend is someone you can tell your dreams. --Dale Dauten

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice. --Max DePree

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. --George Fabricius

http://theblueskymovie.com/?SRC=MIAM080812

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good.

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
It's one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no person can help another without helping themselves.--Emerson

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision. --Helen Keller

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Friends are treasures. --Horace Burns

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.--Jonas Salk

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment. --Albert Einstein

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. --William James

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. --Mother Teresa

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have. --Zig Ziglar

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
...a friend ought always to do good to a friend and never evil. --Plato

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. --Zig Ziglar

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. --Samuel Johnson

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results. --Stephen Covey

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.--Anthony Robbins

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.--William Thackeray

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.--Albert Einstein

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.--Benjamin Franklin

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. --Basil

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
They can because they think they can.--Virgil

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

down is the best place to be

Down Is The Best Place To Be
By Bob Perks

"I've really hit bottom," the young woman said. "You'll still find hope there," I told her. "How could I? I'm down so low in life I can't see a thing." "Down is really a great place to be. Everything is always looking up!" I told her and then went on to explain.
I had been so depressed at one point in my life that I prayed to God to take my life. Every morning when I woke up, I'd curse the day. I was unemployed and in great debt.But it wasn't until I crashed, literally hitting the floor that my life would change. My life became very predictable. I had been desperately looking for a job. Each morning I woke up I'd grab the local newspaper from my porch. Bypassing the news, which during that time was depressing enough, I immediately looked for the want ads. Running my finger slowly down the page, I'd carefully scan for something new. Anything that caught my attention would be circled. It was early in 1990. There was little to circle.That day there was nothing at all. By this point I had already sent out hundreds of resumes to every conceivable employer within a 100-mile radius of my home. Of course, because of the economy, so did thousands of other unemployed mid-lifers.I remember that day as clearly as I can see today. Sadness and despair washed over me like sweat on a hot, humid day. I stood up from the kitchen table and walked, no, dragged myself into the living room. The paper slipped from my hands as I lost all touch with reality. My heart, my mind, my soul, my spirit, suddenly just gave up on life.I looked up at the ceiling and tears gushed from my eyes. With every last bit of energy I screamed, "God help me!" and fell to the floor on my knees. I wept openly for a few minutes and rolled over on my side. I lay there crying still, now curled up in a fetal position. I don't remember much of my time lying there on the floor, but I do remember waking up and finding my Old English Sheepdog next to me.I, too, was as low as I could be. You might think, "How sad!" or "How very depressing!" It actually saved my life. Jim Rohn, professional speaker and inspirational writer would call such an event, "The day that turned my life around." Despair and anguish were like an infection running through my system. Hopelessness and thoughts of being a failure were lies raging within my very soul. That moment, my crashing to the floor was one of the greatest moments in my life. I was down so low that "up" was the only option. I believe, that my cry to God that day told Him that I was ready for Him to take over. Up until that very moment, although I may have prayed for help, I was never really willing to accept it at all.There is a story about a man in search of an audience with a great Sage. The day they met the man began to tell his story, never ceasing, never yielding to the Sage's input.
Finally the Wise Man raised his hand to stop the conversation.
"Would you like a cup of tea?" he asked the man. "Yes, that would be fine," the man replied and continued speaking. The Wise Man placed the small tea cup in front of the man and began to pour from the tea pot. He continued pouring until the cup was filled beyond capacity and now overflowing onto the table.
"Stop!" the man shouted. "It is more than full!" The Sage set the tea pot down on the table and said, "You came here for guidance but, like the cup before you, you are overflowing, unwilling and unable to add anything to your life."Before I emptied myself by letting go of it all that day, I too, was much too full of myself to permit God to take over. If you are struggling with life and find yourself face down on the floor, remember two things. "Down is a great place to be, because everything is always looking up." And..."You can't fall off the floor."

creating opportunity

Creating Opportunity
By Jim Rohn

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.
To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It's to be skilled enough, confident enough, creative enough and disciplined enough to seize opportunities that present themselves... regardless of the economy.
A person with an enterprising attitude says, "Find out what you can before action is taken." Do your homework. Do the research. Be prepared. Be resourceful. Do all you can in preparation of what's to come.
Enterprising people always see the future in the present. Enterprising people always find a way to take advantage of a situation, not be burdened by it. And enterprising people aren't lazy. They don't wait for opportunities to come to them, they go after the opportunities. Enterprise means always finding a way to keep yourself actively working toward your ambition.
Enterprise is two things. The first is creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and to shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.
What goes hand-in-hand with the creativity of enterprise is the second requirement: the courage to be creative. You need courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
And lastly, being enterprising doesn't just relate to the ability to make money. Being enterprising also means feeling good enough about yourself, having enough self worth to want to seek advantages and opportunities that will make a difference in your future. And by doing so you will increase your confidence, your courage, your creativity and your self-worth, your enterprising nature.

FURTHER QUOTES FOR YR PLEASURE

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The price of excellence is discipline.
The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

William Arthur Ward

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
Anthony Robbins

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw


I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't.
Bruce Jenner

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
Joseph Marshall Wade

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars. or your legs. or your hands. or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie

There are two primary choices in life;
to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley

A TOUCHING STORY

Just Five More Minutes
Author Unknown

While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.
"That's my son over there," she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.

"He's a fine looking boy" the man said. "That's my daughter on the bike in the white dress."

Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. "What do you say we go, Melissa?"
Melissa pleaded, "Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes."
The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart's content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. "Time to go now?"
Again Melissa pleaded, "Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes."
The man smiled and said, "OK."

"My, you certainly are a patient father," the woman responded.

The man smiled and then said, "Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I'd give anything for just five more minutes with him. I've vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.

She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play."
Life is all about making priorities, what are your priorities?Give someone you love 5 more minutes of your time today!

some quotes

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The greater things in life are unseen thats why youclose your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream...--Anonymous

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. –Dale Carnegie

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough,you'll find a way to get it. --Jim Rohn

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
-- Bruce Fierstein

its golden

Remember Rule #1...It's Golden An excerpt from The Power of Attitude by Mac Anderson

I grew up in Trenton, a west Tennessee town of five thousand people. I have wonderful memories of those first eighteen years, and many people in Trenton influenced my life in very positive ways. My football coach, Walter Kilzer, taught me the importance of hard work, discipline, and believing in myself. My history teacher, Fred Culp, is still the funniest person I've ever met. He taught me that a sense of humor, and especially laughing at yourself, can be one of life's greatest blessings.But my father was my hero. He taught me many things, but at the top of the list, he taught me to treat people with respect...to live the Golden Rule. I remember one particular instance of him teaching this "life lesson" as if it were yesterday. Dad owned a furniture store, and I used to dust the furniture every Wednesday after school to earn my allowance. One afternoon I observed my Dad talking to all the customers as they came in...the hardware store owner, the banker, a farmer, a doctor. At the end of the day, just as Dad was closing, the garbage collector came in.I was ready to go home, and I thought that surely Dad wouldn't spend too much time with him. But I was wrong. Dad greeted him at the door with a big hug and talked with him about his wife and son who had been in a car accident the month before. He empathized, he asked questions, he listened, and he listened some more. I kept looking at the clock, and when the man finally left, I asked, "Dad, why did you spend so much time with him? He's just the garbage collector." Dad then looked at me, locked the front door to the store, and said, "Son, let's talk."He said, "I'm your father and I tell you lots of stuff as all fathers should, but if you remember nothing else I ever tell you, remember this...treat every human being just the way that you would want to be treated." He said, "I know this is not the first time you've heard it, but I want to make sure it's the first time you truly understand it, because if you had understood, you would never have said what you said." We sat there and talked for another hour about the meaning and the power of the Golden Rule. Dad said, "If you live the Golden Rule everything else in life will usually work itself out, but if you don't, your life probably will be very unhappy and without meaning."I recently heard someone say, "If you teach your child the Golden Rule, you will have left them an estate of incalculable value." Truer words were never spoken.

some quotes

When you blame someone else for your loss or pain, you crucify yourself more than them.
-- Alan Cohen

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
We love because it's the only true adventure.--Nikki Giovanni

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.--Lucretius

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunityto spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.::: Jack Welch :::

People often say to me, 'Zig, motivationis great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, Bathing doesn't last either,that's why I recommend it daily."—Zig Ziglar

http://miammovies.com/dash/ (interesting movie for all)

some quotes

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.--Stephen Levine

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Fortune favors the brave.--Publius Terence

"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions." - Jim Rohn

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love makes everything that is heavy light.--Thomas P Kempis

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. - Walter J. Lippmann

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
The best way out is always through.--Robert Frost

When you deny someone their good, you deny yourself yours. When you allow someone their good, you allow yourself yours.
-- Alan Cohen

dreamzzzz

A New Relationship with Time(An excerpt from Dreams Are Whispers from the Soul)

Probably no other complaint is voiced more often than not having enough time.“I don’t have time to pursue my dreams or to even know what my dreams are. I don’t have time for me, for my family and friends. Basically, I don’t have time to live my life.” Passion is the ultimate time management tool for two reasons. First, when you are doing what you love, who cares about time? When you are with someone special, or listening to a great piece of music, or painting or volunteering, doesn’t time just fly by? Second, when you are doing what you love it often gets done faster. The way we spend our time is the way we spend our lives. Can you slow down enough to get “in synch” with life, nature, and most importantly, yourself? Tune in to your rhythm and natural pulse. Take off your watch and give yourself a day off. Eat when you’re hungry and sleep when you’re tired so you can discover who you are, what you need and what works best for you. Make a date with yourself, every day if possible. Even if for only a half hour, carving out time for you is a great act of generosity. Your work can usually wait a half hour, but your soul can’t. Whether we like it or not, the clock keeps ticking so live fully, every single second of every single day. Learn the true joy of doing less and having more as you experience each day as priceless. Fill your life with as many precious moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. When you “catch yourself in the act” of doing something that doesn’t serve you, you can choose to change it. And, when it’s a repeating pattern, you can literally change your life

quotes for your mind

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.-Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the Untied States of America

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESSI
t is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. -General George S. Patton

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do,would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.--Franklin Rooservelt, 32nd President of the Untied States of America

A mind stretched by a new idea never shrinks back to its original proportions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.--Washington Irving

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet musttalk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. From true joy your service is maximal.
-- Alan Cohen

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.--Benjamin Franklin

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Every artist was first an amateur.--Ralph Waldo Emerson


Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.::: Og Mandino :::

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.--Mother Teresa

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. - Ross Perot

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.--Leon J. Suenes

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. --Michael Leunig

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity - George Patton

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin

http://www.greatquotesfromgreatleaders.com/?SRC=080701
End this posting with a nice movie, friends. ope you enjoy it

quotes

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.::: Charles Darwin :::


LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.--Dr Seuss

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone. - Coco Chanel

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou

The part of you that is whole can never be broken, and the part that is broken can never become whole. -- Alan Cohen

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -- Henry David Thoreau


LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.--Author Unknown

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.--W. Clement Stone

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against an injustice, they send forth a ripple of hope. --Robert F. Kennedy


LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. --Denis Waitley

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.--Conrad Hilton

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.--Les Brown

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius


LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. --Viktor E. Frankl

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.--Warren Buffet

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.--James Allen


Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since thepresent moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live.::: Eckhart Tolle :::

quotes

The greatest discovery of my life is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. -- William James


LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.- Martin Luther King Jr.

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Most of what we call management consists of makingit difficult for people to get their jobs done - Peter Drucker

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line isto make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminencein money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.::: Andrew Carnegie :::

Perfection is neither attained nor detained by the striving for it. -- Alan Cohen


LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.--Helen Keller

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. - Peter Drucker

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
All serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.--Sam Keen

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. - Max DePree

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Sandra Carey

When you remove thoughts of lack from your formula, all that remains is abundance. -- Alan Cohen


LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters. - Albert Einstein

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps. - David Loyd George

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison

When faced with any business decision, ask yourself two questions: 1. How can I stay on the cutting edge of my passion? 2. How can I make my clients' lives easier? -- Alan Cohen


LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.--John Harrigan

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark

quotes for the day

Fear draws the object; fearlessness removes it.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. --Basil

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
If we all did the things we are capable of,we would astound ourselves.--Thomas Edison

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATIONThe only journey is the journey within.--Rainer Maria Rilke

People are not bothering you. You are bothering yourself.
-- Alan Cohen

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.--William Thackeray

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.--Marquise du Deffand

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. --Aldous Huxley

The future you see is the future you get.::: Robert G. Allen :::

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. --Thomas Edwards

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.--Robert F. Kennedy

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Energy and persistence conquer all things.--Benjamin Franklin

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
You must look into other people as well as at them. --Lord Chesterfield

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.--Democritus

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.--Albert Schweitzer

http://www.grumpymovie.com/?MIAMSRC=Mrp- see this movie n THINK

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Words To Live By(Excerpted from the book No Glass Ceiling, Just Blue Sky)By Marcy Blochowiak

Dream what you want to dream;
Go where you want to go;
Be what you want to be,
Because you only have one life

And one chance to do all the things You want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human and
Enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't neccessarily Have the best of everything;
They just make the most of Everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always Be based on a forgotten past;
You can't go forward in life untilYou let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying
And everyone around you was smiling
Live your life so at the end
You're the one smiling and
everyoneAround you is crying. --Anonymous

quotes for the day

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since thepresent moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live.::: Eckhart Tolle :::

Happiness leads to achievement more often than achievement leads to happiness.
-- Alan Cohen

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.--Rhonda Britten

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I did not have the ability in the beginning. --Mahatma Gandhi

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. --Wayne Dyer

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.--Jack Welch

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATIONT
he deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out who you are; seek to determine who you want to be--Author Unknown

"Money often costs too much."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reason the same thing keeps happening is that you keep focusing on what happened.
-- Alan Cohen

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
If the only time I saw you was in my dreams, I'd sleep forever. --Anonymous

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.--- Napoleon Boneparte

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Not one of us knows what affect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. The way in which power works is a mystery.--Albert Schweitzer

some quotes

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Life in abundance comes only through great love.--Elbert Hubbard

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Leadership is not a designated position; it's a phenomenon. It is people following people because they want to, not because they have to.--Larry Wilson

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the path of the strong. --Thomas Carlyle

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Edward Appleton

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Fear clogs; faith liberates. Elbert Hubbard

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done.
-- Calvin Coolidge

Find perfection in what is rather than what will be. Then what will be will be perfect as today.
-- Alan Cohen

We may need to solve problems not by removing thecause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.::: Edward de Bono :::

Angels have no philosophy but love.
-- Adeline Cullen Ray

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Pablo Picasso

You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill can not be hidden. No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it under a bushel basket, but rather on a lamp stand and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works.
~ Book of Mathew

some quotes

Meditation: When the space between your thoughts becomes greater than the thoughts between your spaces.
-- Alan Cohen

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.--Christopher Reeve

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.--John Powell

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Joy is not in things; it is in us.--Richard Wagner

some quotes

If all the great artists, inventors, mystics, educators, and geniuses of history waited for the world to understand, accept, and be ready for them, we would still be in the Stone Age.
-- Alan Cohen
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.--Brandi Snyder

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Success seems to be connected with action.Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. --Conrad Hilton

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or loser.--Lou Holtz

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
No act of kindness, not matter how small, is ever wasted.--Aesop

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Excellence is not an act, it is a habit.--Aristotle

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Keep your face to the sunshine, andyou will not see the shadows.--Helen Keller

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Be prepared and be honest.--John Wooden

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
If everyone is moving forward together.then success will take care of itself.--Henry Ford

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.The other is as though everything is a miracle.--Albert Einstein

Love does not compete because it knows there is enough of everything for everyone.
-- Alan Cohen

A GOOD STORY FOR YOU-DYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

"I have tried my best to show what it is to persevere, and what it means to be strong."--Miles Levin

After a two year battle with cancer, teenager Miles Levin, unfortunately lost his fight.However, during his final years, he achieved a level of self-awareness, courage and wisdom that most of us will never reach.

Miles chose to post his observations on carepages.com blog and through his writings he inspired thousands of people.

He wrote with amazing grace and eloquence. Some of his posts were short:"Dying is not what scares me. It's dying and having no impact."Some were long and philosophical. But each post served a significant purpose in that it challenged the reader to think more deeply about life, death and making a difference.Through his expressions Miles left the world a better place than he came into it. I canonly hope I do the same with my life.

Here's what Miles said just one month after being diagnosed with terminal cancer:"I went to the driving range the other day and I was thinking...I was thinking about how you start out with a big bucket full of golf balls, and you just start hitting away carelessly. You have dozens of them, each individual ball means nothing to you so just hit, hit, hit.One ball is practically inconsequential when subtracted from your bottomless bucket. There are no practice swings or technique re-evaluations after a bad shot, because so many more tries remain.Yet eventually you start to have to reach down towards the bottom of the bucket to scavenge for another shot and you realize that tries are running out. Now with just a handful left, each swing becomes more crucial, so between each shot you take a couplepractice swings and a few deep breaths.There is a very strong need to end on a good note, even if the preceding shot was terrible, getting it right at the end means a lot. You know as you tee up your last ball, 'This is myfinal shot, I want to crush this with perfection; I must make this count.'Limited quantities or limited time brings a new, precious value and significance to anything you do. Live every day shooting as if it's your last shot, I know I have to." --Miles Alpern Levin, July 7, 2005

Like Miles suggested, we should treat each day as a precious ball of life. Take your time, take a breath and make a practice swing. Make each shot count and most of all finish strong! Finish Strong is filled with amazing stories of courage and inspiration. Finish Strong is more than a statement...it's an attitude that help you get the most out of life

some quotes

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
-- Dwight Eisenhower

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
We don't see things as they are;we see things as we are.--Anais Nin

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.--Napoleon Hill

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Nobody who ever gave his best regreted it.--George Halas

For every person in your past with whom you feel unhealed but unable to go back and resolve, there is someone standing before you offering you the opportunity to practice the healing you believe you missed.
-- Alan Cohen

It's not what you do that drains you. It's the resistance you hold while doing it.
-- Alan Cohen

I couldn’t wait for success -- so I went ahead without it.
-- Jonathan Winters

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
For those to whom much is given,much is required.--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.--Mark Twain

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Life is ten percent what you make itand ninety percent how you take it.--Ben Franklin

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentratingall of your energies on a limited set of targets.--Nido Qubein

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The first law of success is concentration - to bend allthe energies to one point, and to go directly to thatpoint, looking neither to the right nor to the left.--William Mathews

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
When every physical and mental resource is focused, one'spower to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.--Norman Vincent Peale

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
-- Mark Twain

some quotes

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
When you are in love, you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.--Dr. Seuss

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time.--Joe Girard

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.--John Maxwell

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Add an extra 15 minutes each day to the timeyou invest with your children or spouse - that's the equivalent of more than two weeks each year. -from 212 the extra degree

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.--B.C. Forbes

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Never stop. One always stops as soonas something is about to happen.

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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
-- Benjamin Franklin

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. --Oscar Wilde

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. --Les Brown

Claim contentment. Practice perfection. Own oneness. Embody ecstasy.
-- Alan Cohen

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear--John Lennon

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.--Will Smith

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.--Stephen Covey

REALLY GOOD ARTICLES FOR YOUR THINKING?

WHAT YOU FOCUS ON YOU GIVE POWER TO!
By Darlene Braden

The unconscious mind has an unlimited ability to hold information; it
never sleeps, and it is always absorbing information and data. Your
unconscious intends to protect you in any way that it can; it kept you from
falling off the bed last night, didn’t it? It was aware of the edge
of the bed and kept you away from it, just far enough to be safe.

The problem is that the unconscious mind - about 97 percent of the
brain - is not very smart, at least in a logical way. For this reason, you
need to engage the conscious mind so that you will act appropriately.
The limitation is that the conscious mind can attend to only about five
things at the same time, and everything else fades to the background.
Now, five bits of information is certainly a lot less than millions of
bits of information, so you must constantly decide what those five
conscious things ought to be.

For example: If you look for all the green objects in the room, you
will find them, and if you look for all the yellow, you will see all the
yellow. If you sort for all the mean people in the world, you will find
them; when you look for what is working in your life, you will see it.
Focus on what you want. Go for what you want and keep your focus on
what you have chosen!

How about your significant other or a good friend? Is there something
about them that bugs you? Now be honest. Most people would say, “Yes,
indeed.” Now take something that bugs you and visually move it to the
background. Next, focus on something that you like and visually make
it big and compelling, full of color and life. Let it slide into the
foreground. Wow. How do you feel now?

If you choose to spend your mind capacity thinking and stewing about
negative things, sure enough, you will feel negative. I do not presume
that we live in denial; I offer the concept that we highlight what is
working rather than what is not working, in other words, what you have
rather than what you don’t have. It is interesting to note that
depressed individuals focus on what they do not have. If you ask depressed
people how they feel or what their thoughts are, they will tell you about
things that are going wrong or things they do not have.

Do you have legs? Some people do not. Do you have food? Some people do
not. Do you have a job? Some people do not. No matter what your
circumstance, you have something to be thankful for.

Focus on what you have, what you want, what is good, and what can be
changed, and move forward in your life.

Author Profile: Darlene Braden is the author of - What Stops You?
Overcome Self-Sabotage Personal and Professional. Do you want to achieve
your dreams, goals and visions? Darlene’s F*R*E*E eBook shows you how.
The BALANCE LIVING WHEEL Assessment will help you to have the life you
have always dreamed of. http://www.whatstopsyou.com/balancedwheel.html
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IN-JOYING YOURSELF
(Author Unknown)

There ought to be an action-verb for being in joy. It is so much a
choice and so much an action. Joying starts with an open communion with the
universe. Just sitting in the presence of all that is and being
thankful that you are a part of it.

Joying is appreciating the littlest of things. Joying looks under every
rock and expects something good to pop out.

Joying paints a smile on the face and puts a pep in the step and looks
forward for things to match it.

In times of testing, joying reaches into a promise that lines up the
universe and refuses to lose its peace until the promise comes to pass.

Joying tends to be playful and child-like. It likes to skip through
life, discovering new things to enjoy.

Joying is being grateful. Treasuring each moment, for it could all be
gone in an instant.

Joying desires others to experience its same comfort. It grows as it
gives of itself.

Joying refuses to murmur or grumble and throw away peace. Joying
reflects a smile and blesses everyone in eye or ear shot of it.

Joying is never exhausting, for its every action gives life to the
heart. It steps on fear, dances on depression and stomps on sin.

Joying is beyond happiness or things dependent on happenings. Feeling
good is its reward not its goal.

Joying is the very act of enjoying all who enjoy us, forever.
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MEAN MOMS
By Will Sherwood

We had the meanest mother in the whole world!

While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs,
and toast. When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to
eat sandwiches. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was
different from what other kids had, too.

Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. You'd think we
were convicts in a prison. She had to know who our friends were, and
what we were doing with them. She insisted that if we said we would be
gone for an hour, we would be gone for an hour or less.

We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to break the Child
Labor Laws by making us work. We had to wash the dishes, make the beds,
learn to cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, and all sorts of cruel
jobs. I think she would lie awake at night thinking of more things for us
to do.

She always insisted on us telling the truth the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. By the time we were teenagers, she could read our
minds.

Then, life was really tough! Mother wouldn't let our friends just honk
the horn when they drove up. They had to come up to the door so she
could meet them.

While everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait
until we were 16.

Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids
experienced. None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing
other's property, or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault.

Now that we have left home, we are all God-fearing, educated, honest
adults. We are doing our best to be mean parents just like Mom was. I
think that's what's wrong with the world today. It just doesn't have
enough mean moms anymore.
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THE ART OF LETTING GO
by Thelma Mariano

It has been six months since I left the corporate world – and there
are some things I will always miss. Like saying good morning to
colleagues on my way to the office where I worked every day. Or getting caught
in the excitement as we prepared for another big meeting or
presentation.

I now realize what a huge transition this was, moving from a corporate
headquarters with hundreds of employees to a small home office of one.
Though I would never trade in my current life, with its freedom and
independence, I lived in that other world for 31 years…

… And I still feel the pangs of letting go.

At different points in our lives we all experience the difficulty of
letting go – not only physically but with our hearts and minds. We may
need to do this with our relationships, careers or sometimes the place
we call home.

Even destructive relationships can be hard to walk away from. Author
Casey Clair, in Still Single, speaks of the emptiness of her five-year
affair with a married man and “the hours of self-doubt and
unhappiness” that plagued her. She writes: “It all coalesced into a wound that
even I couldn’t ignore.” It was the pain that finally forced her to
leave him.

We may also have to face the loss of our health or abilities through
illness or an accident. When change is thrust upon us, it is often more
taxing than when it’s our decision. Either way letting go is never
quick or easy.

No matter whom or what YOU need to let go of in your life, here are
ways to get through the process.

* Allow Yourself to Grieve
Ironically it is your own resistance that causes you the most pain. The
more you resist giving in to emotion, the harder it becomes to get
through this transition. Stoicism does not lend you strength. It is more
helpful to re-live the good moments of the relationship or situation you
must leave behind and acknowledge what it has given you. Then let the
tears come.

* Share Your Experience
You may need to talk about the changes in your life. This is the time
to turn to supportive friends or family members. Or even to strangers
who understand what you’re going through.

Faye, a violinist and writer who suffered the loss of her parents
followed by that of her beloved cat, says, “The one thing that’s made
any letting go easier is finding people who have gone through exactly the
same experience.”

It may also be reassuring to read about others who have been at the
same crossroads - where the past is still so close you can touch it, and
the future too dim and vague to offer much comfort.

A couple of times in her life, though, Faye experienced losses that the
people around her could not relate to. “At the bottom level,” she
says, “we face letting go alone, in the night. It’s really about
hope.”

* Learn to Accept
Children grow up and leave home; relationships evolve and people move
on. This is life. As put by actor William B. Davis: “It struck me
while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.”

There is a season to everything, and the timing of change is usually
not within our control.

Looking back, you will likely realize that you also had no say when
that particular relationship or situation began. C.A. Dowler is a career
and business mentor. In talking about her process of letting go, she
points out: “As I had no control over when and how that wonderful thing
came into my life, I have no right to now hold on to it when it’s
ready to go.”

There IS a gap in your life. What you feel is the absence of what you
had before. Yet it is only through acceptance that you can let in the
new, whether it’s another person or set of circumstances.

* Embrace the New
When a toddler reaches for something different, she can easily drop the
thing she was holding. Releasing is something we are able to do
naturally, but as we grow older we learn to hang on tight. Part of the reason
is our longing for the familiar and our fear of the unknown. We
don’t know what lies around the next corner, or if we can ever again find
the happiness we see ourselves losing.

It takes courage to really let go. You have to trust that what is now
coming into your life is what you most need. Then take a deep breath,
and let yourself turn another page.

Copyright © 2003 by Thelma Mariano

Author Profile: Thelma Mariano, life coach and author, is dedicated to
bringing clarity and direction to people's lives. See her on-line
coaching programs, articles and column at http://www.u-unlimited.ca
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HOW TO CUT FUEL COSTS

Obviously driving less, using mass transit, biking, walking or
purchasing a fuel efficient vehicle are the best ways to cut your fuel
consumption. But for those times where driving a car is a necessity, here are
some tips:

1. Don't be a jerky driver: Jumpy starts and fast getaways can burn
over 50 percent more gasoline than normal acceleration. Use cruise control
once accelerated.

2. Drive slower: According to the U.S. Department of Energy, most
automobiles get about 20 percent more miles per gallon on the highway at 55
miles per hour than they do at 70 miles per hour.

3. A well maintained car (oil change, fuel filters, tire pressure,
alignment) gets an average of 10 percent better fuel efficiency.

4. Turn off your engine if you stop for more than one minute. (This
does not apply if you are in traffic.) Restarting the automobile will use
less gasoline than idling for more than one minute.

5. Decrease the number of short trips you make. Short trips drastically
reduce gas mileage. If an automobile gets 20 miles per gallon in
general, it may get only 4 miles per gallon on a short trip of 5 miles or
less.
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quotes

The meaning of life is to be happy, to do whatever puts a smile on
our face. Just so long as it doesn't take one from someone else. --
Wendy Thacker

quotes

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS

We do not remember days, we remember moments in our lives. --Unknown

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS

Aim for service and success will follow. --Albert Schweitzer

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of good ideas. --Linus Pauling http://mk1.netatlantic.com/t/4959945/19256796/14296/0/ please see this link and it thought me something. I hope its good for u too. tq

quotes

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe. --Jane Goodall

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS

Integrity is not a ninety percent thing, not a ninety-five percent thing. Either you have it or you don't. --Peter Scotese

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION

The time is always right to do what is right. --Martin Luther King Jr.

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. --Clint Eastwood

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. --Sir William Osler

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. --Chinese Proverb

quote for the day

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. --Spanish Proverb

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Show me a person who cannot bother to do little things, and I'll show you someone who cannot be trusted to do the big things. --Lawrence D. Bell

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It's the fuel that allows common people to obtain uncommon results. --Andrew Cargegie

quote for the day

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours. --Jacquelinemae

Rudd LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them...we know that if we treat our employees correctly, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back. --J. Marriott Jr.

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow. --Anthony J. D'Angelo

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
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

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
When we choose not to focus on what is missing fromour lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present...we experience true heaven on earth. --Sarah Ban Breathnach

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. --Paul Boese

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
You get the best effort from others not by LIGHTING a fire beneath them, but by BUILDING a fire with them. --Bob Nelson

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in their leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves--Anonymous

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.--Lily Tomlin

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
As I grow older, I play less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. --Andrew Carnegie

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Knowledge is of no value unless you put in into practice. --Heber J. Grant

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
If not you, who?If not now, when? --Abraham Maslow

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Wake and act each day with the understanding that your actions will be absorbed by your children...and your children will grow to be contributing adults to the level of your influence.

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.--Thomas Edison

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. --George S. Patton

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying make me feel important. --Mary Kay Ash

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Outstanding leaders go out of theirway to boost self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. --Sam Walton

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
A Soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. --Napoleon Bonaparte

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.--Anonymous

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.--Will Smith

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.--Amelia Earhart

a carrot, egg and coffee

A carrot, an egg and a cup of coffee... By Anonymous

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 and placed each on a high fire.

Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in 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 thecarrots 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.

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee.The daughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced thesame adversity ... boiling water. 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 itsliquid 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?"**When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean? - It's definitely something worth thinking about...

quotes for the day

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Allow me to be a blessing to you and allow yourself to be a blessing to others. --John Coonley

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest. --Mary Crowley

LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
There are two lasting bequests we can give to our children: one is roots, the other is wings. --Hodding Carter

LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Success is never final. Failure us never fatal. It's courage that counts. --John Wooden

INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude...nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. --Thomas Jefferson