Saturday, July 31, 2010

Be Bold!

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832); Writer, Polymath

Your Life is Happening Now!

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

—Alfred D. Souza
(-2004) writer, philosopher

Friday, July 30, 2010

Your Thoughts Matter

“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.”

—Bill Meyer
(1892-1957); baseball manager, coach

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Everyone Can Be Great!

“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

—Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-1968); Minister, Civil Rights Activist

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Live in a Merrier World

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

—J.R.R. Tolkien
(1892-1973); Writer, Poet, Philologist, University Professor

Monday, July 26, 2010

Creativity

“Creativity is putting your imagination to work.

—Sir Ken Robinson (1950-); author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies

Talk to Someone in Their Language

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
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—Nelson Mandela (1918-); Former President Of South Africa

Today is for Action!

“I only have to have enough energy for today.”
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--Edmond Danken Sailer

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Immortality!

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

—Albert Pike
(1809-1891); Attorney, Writer, Soldier

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Be Open to Truth

“If you will be as open to scientific inquiry as you are to unverified information, you will be a wiser person.”
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--Edmond Danken Sailer