ANON

Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.

-o=0=o-

EMILY DICKENSON

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

 

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THOMAS FULLER

All doors open to courtesy.

 

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GEORGE S. PATTON

A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow. 

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OPRAH WINFREY

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.

-o=0=o-

HENRY FORD

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

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ANON

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

-o=0=o-

THOMAS CARLYLE

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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JOSH BILLINGS

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

-o=0=o-

MAYA ANGELOU

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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FRANCIS BACON

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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ASHLEY SMITH

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

-o=0=o-

Today on THROUGH SCOTTISH EYES

"Shakespeare and his Contemporaries" by John Faed

http://withscottisheyes.blogspot.com

ANON

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore.

-o=0=o-

THROUGH SCOTTISH EYES

An online gallery of Scottish Paintings

begins on Monday 5th November

http://withscottisheyes.blogspot.com

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DEBBIE COULTER

Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind.  

-o=0=o-

Swedish Proverb

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

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THE VICTORIAN SCRAPBLOG

Read what Queen Victoria wrote in her Journal 180 years ago today!

http://thevictorianscrapblog.blogspot.com

ANDREW CARNEGIE

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honour.

-o=0=o-

B.B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

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COLLEEN C. BARRETT

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

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BUDDHA

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but through persistence.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There was never yet philosopher

That could endure toothache patiently.

-o=0=o-

ANON

For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy or there is none;
If there be one, try and find it,
If there be none, never mind it.

-o=0=o-

Have you visited the Victorian Scrapblog yet?

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JANE AUSTEN

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

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

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RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

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ERIC LOMAX

Continuing to hate gets you nowhere. It just damages you as an individual. At some point, the hating has to stop.

[Lomax was a prisoner of war victim of Japanese torture]

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

-o=0=o-

CATHERINE the GREAT

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

 

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CHARLES SCHULTZ

I have a new philosophy; I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

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J. PETIT SENN

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

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THE VICTORIAN SCRAPBLOG
is updated today
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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

It wasn’t until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say “I don’t know.” 

-o=0=o-

MARCIA WIEDER

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

-o=0=o-

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned."

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Zen Proverb

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

-o=0=o-

THE VICTORIAN SCRAPBLOG

updated every Friday

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W.S. GILBERT

If you wish in this world to advance, 

Your merits you're bound to enhance; 

You must stir it and stump it, 

And blow your own trumpet, 

Or trust me, you haven't a chance. 

-o=0=o-

JANE AUSTEN

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

-o=0=o-

HENRY WARD BEECHER

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t.

-o=0=o-

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Afghan Proverb

Bloom where you're planted.

-o=0=o-

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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G.K. CHESTERTON

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

-o=0=o-

MAYA ANGELOU

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

-o=0=o-

JOHN G. WHITTIER

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here.

-o=0=o-

NEW - The Victorian Scrapblog - NEW

beginning Friday 12th October

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HONORE DE BALZAC

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

DEMOCRITUS

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

-o=0=o-

LYNN JOHNSTON

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing.

-o=0=o-

Latin Proverb

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.

 

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HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

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W.C. FIELDS

Start every day with a smile and get over it.

 

-o=0=o-

ALBERT EINSTEIN

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

NEW - The Haiku Habit - NEW

beginning tomorrow

http://thehaikuhabit.blogspot.com

ELIZABETH ARDEN

Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.

-o=0=o-

ANON

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

-o=0=o-

SENECA

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

HELEN KELLER

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

PAUL HARVEY

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. 

-o=0=o-

CHARLES DICKENS

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one - stronger than magician ever spoke or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

-o=0=o-

NEW  - The Haiku Habit - NEW
beginning Monday 1st October
http://thehaikuhabit.blogspot.com

OPRAH WINFREY

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

-o=0=o-

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

-o=0=o-

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

-o=0=o-

ROBERT INGERSOLL

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

-o=0=o-

LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD

 If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

-o=0=o-

SAM EWING

Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

-o=0=o-

taking the one less travelled by

a picture to admire, a poem to ponder, music to meditate by

and a saying by Lao-Tzu

http://takingtheonelesstravelledby.blogspot.com

MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

-o=0=o-

Gaelic Saying

An làmb a bheir, ‘s i a gheibh

The hand that gives is the hand that gets.

ANON

If for a tranquil mind you seek,
These things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when and where.

-o=0=o-

STENDHAL

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

-o=0=o-

taking the one less travelled by
a picture to admire, a poem to ponder, music to meditate by
and a saying by Lao-Tzu
http://takingtheonelesstravelledby.blogspot.com

BUDDHA

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die -
So let us all be thankful.

-o=0=o-

HELEN KELLER

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

-o=0=o-

taking the one less travelled by
a picture to admire, a poem to ponder, music to meditate by
and a saying by Lao-Tzu

http://takingtheonelesstravelledby.blogspot.com

IRVING BERLIN

Got no cheque books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

-o=0=o-

taking the one less travelled by
http://takingtheonelesstravelledby.blogspot.com

ISAAC ASIMOV

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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taking the one less travelled by
http://takingtheonelesstravelledby.blogspot.com

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ANON

A groundless rumour often covers a lot of ground.

-o=0=o-

taking the one less travelled by
Have you visited the new blog yet?
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ELLEN DeGENERES

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

-o=0=o-

taking the one less travelled by
Have you visited the new blog yet?
http://takingtheonelesstravelledby.blogspot.com

JOHN LENNON

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

‘Tis better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

-o=0=o-

NOW ONLINE - taking the one less travelled by - NOW ONLINE
This new blog can be found at
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KAHLIL GIBRAN

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

-o=0=o-

NOW ONLINE - taking the one less travelled by - NOW ONLINE
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DOROTHY PARKER

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

-o=0=o-

HENRI MATISSE

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

-o=0=o-

DALE CARNEGIE

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

-o=0=o-

ERIC HOFFER

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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DOROTHEA BRANDE

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

-o=0=o-

JOSH BILLINGS

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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ANON

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

-o=0=o-

AUDREY HEPBURN

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!

-o=0=o-

H.G. WELLS

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise.

-o=0=o-

AESOP

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

-o=0=o-

ARISTOTLE ONASSIS

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

-o=0=o-

ANNA LAPPE

Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."

-o=0=o-

MAHATMA GHANDI

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

-o=0=o-

MOHAMMAD ALI

Silence is golden, when you can’t think of a good answer.

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ANON

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.

-o=0=o-

EDITH SITWELL

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music and silence.

-o=0=o-

MARK TWAIN

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

-o=0=o-

now on 80plus
one of the most unusual paintings ever created
The Dutch Proverbs by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
http://80plus.blogspot.com

ANON

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything.

80plus
a new series begins on Friday
http://80plus.blogspot.com

LAO-TZU

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

-o=0=o-

BLOG NEWS
After an interval of four months, 80plus is returning.
A new series begins on Friday 17th August.
http://80plus.blogspot.com

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

One lives and learns, doesn’t one? That is certainly one of the more prevalent delusions.

-o=0=o-

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

-o=0=o-

LINDA GRAYSON

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

-o=0=o-

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (The Merchant of Venice)

-o=0=o-

THOMAS A. EDISON

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

-o=0=o-

ANON

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

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