JIMMY DEAN

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination.

GANDHI

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

ANON

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.

WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

MAX EHRMANN

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
And remember what peace there may be in silence.


Those are the first lines of Max Ehrmann’s prose poem “Desiderata.”
In my blog John’s Quiet Corner posted today I have included a visual presentation of the complete poem against a background of lovely scenery, and accompanied by the sublime music of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings.

The whole video takes 10 minutes, but I highly recommend it.

http://john-quietcorner.blogspot.com/

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

REBA McENTIRE

To succeed in life you need three things - a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Hitch your wagon to a star.

BUDDHA

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts. It is a sword that kills.

SHANTI

You are really rich when you enjoy yourself as you are, when you are contented with what you have.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

JAMES M. BARRIE

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The DALAI LAMA

Don’t try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. Use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.

ANON

Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered, and lo -
No-one was there.

DANIEL DEFOE

The killing of time is the worst of murders.

HORACE

Learn to be wise, strain out the wine and prune lavish hopes to the quick. While we converse, envious time will have vanished. Harvest today, placing the least credence on what is to come.

DANNY KAYE

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

SENECA

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly and without hesitation. There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

AMY BLOOM

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been married for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

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Since today is my 55th Wedding Anniversary, I’ve posted some of our Wedding Photographs on the EIGHTY PLUS website - http://80plus.blogspot.com/

C.S. LEWIS

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

ANON

Today is the absolute day, the only day in the eternity of time.
Every day is fresh and new, just as one’s life is new every day.

THOMAS A KEMPIS

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.

GOETHE

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

RICHARD BACH

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

ANDRE GIDE

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

MARY OLIVER

When it’s over, I want to say -
All my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are. Be humbly what you aspire to be.

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My EIGHTY PLUS blog today includes two paintings by Abraham Solomon, a poem by William Makepeace Thackeray, an unusual aspect of Scottish life in the 18th century, and a real treat for octogenarians who are still kids at heart!!!

http://80plus.blogspot.com

WINSTON CHURCHILL

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

LOU HOLTZ

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

JIM BEGGS

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

Ancient Egyptian Saying

Silence is more profitable than abundance of speech.