15 Thoughts (posted Ago.10, 2011)

1. Luck never gives; it only lends. Swedish proverb   

2. Generosity gives assistance rather than advice. Vauvenargues  

3. Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. A. W. Tozer

4. To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything. Joan Didion

5. We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us. R.W. Boreham

6. Neither gods nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your imperative duty to use every means, moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success. Henry Highland Garnet

7. I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others. Helen Boosalis

8. Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings. Bruce Catton

9. Accomplishment comes to those who say: "I can make it happen." Brian Cavanaugh

10. Everyone is born with a limited amount of time. Every moment we live--whether we're working, playing, complaining, or being thankful--is time that we've spent. Nothing is more valuable than the time we have left. Cynthia Kersey

11. Everybody needs one essential friend. William Glasser

12. The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives. Vaughan Quinn

13. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordimer

14. The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. Bess Myerson

15. Without effort, even the greatest of ideas go nowhere. John Pearson