Thursday, September 30, 2010

TFTD

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

TFTD

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. -- John F. Kennedy

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

TFTD

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. -- Albus Dumbledore (J. K. Rowling)

Monday, September 27, 2010

TFTD

A good back porch neighbor is a wonderful thing. -- Terry Dennis

Sunday, September 26, 2010

TFTD

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. -- Peter T. McIntyre

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Friday, September 24, 2010

TFTD

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. -- Albert Schweitzer

Thursday, September 23, 2010

TFTD

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. -- Ursula K. Le Guin

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

TFTD

Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. -- Helen Powers

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

TFTD

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! -- Dr. Seuss

Monday, September 20, 2010

TFTD

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Sunday, September 19, 2010

TFTD

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. -- Albert Schweitzer

Saturday, September 18, 2010

TFTD

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. -- Jean Cocteau

Friday, September 17, 2010

TFTD

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. -- Louise Driscoll

Thursday, September 16, 2010

TFTD

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain. -- Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

TFTD

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

TFTD

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. -- Helen Keller

Monday, September 13, 2010

TFTD

We can give thanks for our health and happiness, the support we receive from our families and friends, some wonderful memories and the excitement that each new day brings. -- Queen Elizabeth II

Sunday, September 12, 2010

TFTD

I want to do the best I can. Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance, but I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. Perhaps one day I will go into space. -- Stephen Hawking

Saturday, September 11, 2010

TFTD

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. -- Warren Buffett

Friday, September 10, 2010

TFTD

To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thursday, September 9, 2010

TFTD

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

TFTD

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. -- Arthur Balfour

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

TFTD

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities. -- John C. Maxwell

Monday, September 6, 2010

TFTD

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. -- Isaac Asimov

Sunday, September 5, 2010

TFTD

The good life is not a problem-free life. -- Michael A. Schuler

Saturday, September 4, 2010

TFTD

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. -- Joel Barker

Friday, September 3, 2010

TFTD

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. -- Michael Pritchard

Thursday, September 2, 2010

TFTD

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. -- Tom Head

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

TFTD

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. -- Joseph Addison