- Jan. 4, 1997
Received with thanks from Kerry C., aol.com
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
- Jan. 12, 1997
Received with thanks from JV Vandergrift, Philadelphia, PA USA
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."
Will Durant
- Jan. 20, 1997
Received with thanks from Cindy,
Thunder Bay, ON Canada
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Jan 26, 1997
Received with thanks from Mike M., NJ., United States
"Of all the thing's I've lost I miss my MIND the most!"
Ozzy Ozborn
- Feb. 1, 1997
Received with thanks from Ken, Jacksonville, FL
If you don't take a stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
- Feb 9, 1997
Received with thanks from Ashley, Newport, RI
Opportunity is often missed because it is usually dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Feb. 16, 1997
Received with thanks from Anita, Homer, AK
Common sense is not so common.
- Feb. 23, 1997
Received with thanks from Frank M. F., London, Ont., Ca
If you meet someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
- March 3, 1997
Received with thanks from Ann, Harahan, USA
Sing like no one is listening. Dance like no one is watching.
Love like your heart has never been broken.
- March 9, 1997
Received with thanks from Philip Co., Dallas, TX, USA
"Success is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
Thomas Edison
- March 15, 1997
Received with thanks from Jerry, Camarillo, Ca. USA
Good judgement comes from experience,
Experience comes from poor judgement.
- March 29, 1997
Received with thanks from Matt J., Cherokee Village, AR USA
For all your days prepare, and meet them all alike:
When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
"Preparedness", Poem by Edwin Markham, 1950
- April 7, 1997
Received with thanks from Sandy, Charlotte, NC USA
'Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great, but what you consider to be right.'
John Henry Gray
- April 15, 1997
Received with thanks from Zarifah, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
All glory comes from daring to begin.
- April 23, 1997
Received with thanks from Carol, Hickory, NC United States
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- April 29, 1997
Received with thanks from Susan, Stockholm, Sweden
Confessions are good for your soul but not for your reputation.
- May 3, 1997
Received with thanks from Ilsa C., North Bay, On Canada
Chinese Proverb:
To have happiness...
for an hour, take a nap~
for a day, go fishing~
for a month, get married~
for a year, inherit a fortune~
But for a lifetime, help someone.....
- May 11, 1997
Received with thanks from Dana Lyn K.
A smile happens in a flash, but the memory of it can last a lifetime.
- May 18, 1997
Received with thanks from Casey, Surry, VA, USA
Live each day as if there is no tommorrw, learn each day as if there is forever!
- May 25, 1997
Received with thanks from Swaami
It is not the gail, but the set of the sail that determines the way we go.
- June 2, 1997
Received with thanks from David M.V., Stillwater
Science has found that nothing disappears without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation.
Wernher von Braun
- June 8, 1997
Received with thanks from Jamie, Sydney, au
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
- June 15, 1997
Received with thanks from Diana A. of Phoenix, Arizona
Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings
and all of nature.
Albert Einstein
- July 1, 1997
Received with thanks from Thomas L. NYC
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- July 8, 1997
Received with thanks from Brian A.,
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
- July 15, 1997
Received with thanks from Warren L., Naples, FL
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips!
- July 21, 1997
Received with thanks from Glenyss Rowe, Columbia, MD
It is better to build children than to repair men.
- July 28, 1997
Received with thanks from Sylvia, Sofia
"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right."
Henry Ford
- August 4, 1997
Received with thanks from Valerie Balash, Sacramento, CA
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each one's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- August 11, 1997
Received with thanks from Debbie in Grand Forks, ND
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett
- August 18, 1997
Received with thanks from Punnarattana Thammasat,Bangkok, Thailand.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G.K Chesterton, The Defendant
- August 25, 1997
Received with thanks from Dennis P., Greensboro, NC
You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.
Old Proverb
- September 1, 1997
Received with thanks from Ruth C., Calgary, Ca.
Shallow men believe in luck; wise men in cause and effect.
- September 10, 1997
Received with thanks from Anne L., Boston, MA
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
- September 17, 1997
Received with thanks from Jake P. Danielsville Pa
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
is the fact that none of it has tried to contact us."
Bill Waterson, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes"
- September 24, 1997
Received with thanks from Thomas Benning, Halifax, NS. CA
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth."
English Proverb
- October 3, 1997
Received with thanks from Patty M., Verona
Yesterday is History, tomorrow is a Mystery, today is a Gift,
That is why they call it the Present.
- October 13, 1997
Received with thanks from Don Olsen, Falcon Heights
Do what you like, but like what you do.
Advice from Winston Spencer Churchill to his daughter Diana when she decided to go into the theatre.
- October 20, 1997
Received with thanks from Brenda B., Washington Terrace, UT
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
- October 17, 1997
Received with thanks from Kristy
If you judge someone, you have no time to love them.
Mother Theresa
- October 24, 1997
Received with thanks from Chris, my son.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but to quickly see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
- Nov 20, 1997
Received with thanks from TOM ANDRES, MATTOON, IL
It's hard to be walked on when you're standing up.
- Dec 1, 1997
Received with thanks from Madhu Nambiar, Detroit
Smile - Its the only curve that can set a lot of things straight.
- Dec.7, 1997
Received with thanks from Leang Pui Leng
Absense is to love what wind is to fire;
It extinguishes the small, it inflames the great!
- Dec. 14, 1997
Received with thanks from Nicole Bernard - Seattle, Wa
Triumph is just umph added to try.
- Dec. 21, 1997
Received with thanks from Mel, Jamaica
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
- Dec. 30, 1997
Received with thanks from Anonymous
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity!