tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49989785968702123572024-02-19T03:36:37.778-08:00ROM's Daily WisdomThe goal of this blog is to provide wise quotes from around the world, all in one placeKail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.comBlogger276125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-84784068058272902462019-06-05T15:26:00.003-07:002019-06-05T15:30:39.583-07:00Do the Work!<span style="background-color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>―Anonymous</span></span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-87179190424547861952019-06-05T15:20:00.000-07:002019-06-05T15:21:00.814-07:00True Failure<span style="font-size: large;">"True failure is not losing, it is achieved by giving up."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>—<span style="font-size: large;">Edmond Danken Sailer</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-80054122299105215752017-05-14T20:35:00.000-07:002017-05-14T20:36:20.928-07:00Magic in The Natural World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-83865850531685082912014-04-04T17:44:00.000-07:002014-04-04T17:44:05.058-07:00Do it Today!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-66876608230339745772014-04-03T09:52:00.000-07:002014-04-03T09:52:11.449-07:00Take the Chance!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-30795387691947526802014-04-02T14:03:00.000-07:002014-04-02T14:04:19.785-07:00Make Good Habits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-46062101374528028242014-03-28T11:11:00.000-07:002014-03-28T11:11:50.038-07:00Act!<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”<br /><br />Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); 26th U.S. President</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-49834126174812810912014-03-24T22:08:00.000-07:002014-03-24T22:08:18.133-07:00Actions are Louder Than Words!<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">"Tell me what you think, and I'll know
who you want to be. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Show me what you do,
and I'll tell you who you are."</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make new mistakes. Make g<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">lorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”<br /><br />Neil Gaiman (born 1960); Author</span></span></div>
Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-11725121927265429462014-01-12T13:18:00.000-08:002014-01-12T13:18:33.233-08:00Work for Hard, so your Dreams Come True<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“We are designed with a dreaming brain and a hopeful spirit; it is our nature to envision the life of our dreams. And while dreaming comes easy to us, we must never forget that it takes strength, dedication, and courageous action to bring that dream to life.”<br /><br />Steve Maraboli (born 1975); Author</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-26781325876296546462013-12-14T16:31:00.000-08:002013-12-14T16:31:24.651-08:00Frendship Improves Happiness<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”<br /><br />Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43); Roman orator</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-46959240758970439662013-11-25T13:24:00.000-08:002013-11-25T13:24:14.832-08:00Be Better than Yourself<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”<br /><br />William Faulkner (1897-1962); novelist, Nobel Prize winner</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-64295029307961131572013-11-24T15:30:00.003-08:002013-11-24T15:30:55.644-08:00More Kindness Needed<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.”<br /><br />Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977); comic actor, filmmaker, writer</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-42140690382179508682013-11-19T12:07:00.000-08:002013-11-19T12:07:54.463-08:00Power to Imagine Better“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”<br /><br />J.K. Rowling (born 1965); novelistKail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-61897870376906612952013-11-18T16:43:00.000-08:002013-11-18T16:43:11.596-08:00Do What you Love<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking, don't settle.”<br /><br />Steve Jobs (1955-2011); Co-founder Apple Inc.</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-44449599139847302082013-11-17T12:11:00.000-08:002013-11-17T12:11:34.808-08:00Do What Makes You Come Alive!<span class="userContent">“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”<br /><br />Howard Thurman (1899-1981); author, philosopher, theologian, educator, civil rights leader</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-47236617802268172312013-11-16T14:58:00.001-08:002013-11-16T14:58:15.023-08:00Facing Problems“Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.”<br /><br />Swami Sivananda (1887-1963); spiritual leader, author, physicianKail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-44361764239006882562013-11-14T12:45:00.000-08:002013-11-14T12:45:33.172-08:00New Beginnings<span class="userContent">“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”<br /><br />Lao Tzu (600-531); philosopher</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-89464995980398355382013-11-12T17:54:00.000-08:002013-11-12T17:54:41.979-08:00What We See<span class="userContent">“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”<br /><br />John Lubbock (1834-1913); Biologist, politician</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-58698825739820040022013-11-11T14:11:00.000-08:002013-11-11T14:11:47.993-08:00The Social Butterfly Effect is Real!<span class="userContent">“I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, or over tip, smile be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain.”<br /><br />Jonathan Carroll (born 1949); Author</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-16775341104514604662013-11-06T11:50:00.000-08:002013-11-06T11:50:09.503-08:00Strength and Will<span class="userContent">“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”<br /><br />Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948); Indian political and spiritual leader</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998978596870212357.post-64865271505564433082013-11-03T12:15:00.000-08:002013-11-03T12:15:56.576-08:00Happy Duty<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”<br /><br />Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894); essayist, poet, novelist</span>Kail Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17252495744025047790noreply@blogger.com0