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"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

— Vivian Greene

"Every charitable act is a step toward heaven."

— Unknown

"There is always a barrier between me
and someone who does not like dogs."

— Ellen Glasgow

"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words"

— Unknown

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there,
leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
— J.D. Salinger

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection

we can catch excellence."

— Vince Lombardi

"Tell and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

— Benjamin Franklin

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"Success is a lousy teacher.
It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

— Bill Gates

"You never know how strong you are,
until being strong is your only choice."

— Christina Cuomo

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and
an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

— Samuel Johnson

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

— Dolly Parton

"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day,
as each day came."

— Abe Lincoln

"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."

— William Ellery Channing

"There is no love, there are only proofs of love."

— Pierre Reverdy

"Three o'clock is always too late, or too early,
for anything you want to do."

— -Jean Paul Sartre,"

""As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other is for helping others."

— Audrey Hepburn

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

— Cicero

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Cruel, but composed and bland, dumb, inscrutable and grand.
So Tiberius might have sat, had Tiberius been a cat."

— Matthew Arnold

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

—Chinese Proverb

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

—Buddha

"The heart has reasons the brain know nothing of."

- Blaise Pascal

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

— Albert Einstein

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

—Socrates

"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting."

— Walt Disney

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit."

— Aristotle

"We become what we think about."

— Earl Nightingale

"Tommy Joe, don't take any wooden nickels."

— Dolly Hale (my Mom)

"The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence.

All passes; nothing returns."

— Ellen Glasgow

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."

—Charles Swindoll

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"Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself
makes you fearless."

— Lao Tzu

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

—Vince Lombardi

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

— John Burroughs

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible
into the visible."

— Tony Robbins

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude."

— Maya Angelou

“My Wife”

Born to a world of trouble and strife,
given a slap to start my life.

But troubles and joy, both have I seen
they bother me not for I know what they mean.

For the troubles of life were only natures plan,
to shape and to mold and to make me a man.

For the good things in life, the joy and the fun
or the pride that I felt when I first held my son.

And all of these good things I see in my life,
I owe to you, my wife.

–Phil McCoy

Books I’m Reading

The Elephant in The Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller In A Growing America by Tommy Tomlinson (unread)

The Substitution Order by Martin Clark ****½

Red Station by Adrian Magson ****½

A Pocket History of Human Evolution by S. Condemi & F. Savatier ****

It’s About Time: How Long History Took by Mike Flanagan (unread)

The Storyteller’s Nashville by Tom T. Hall **

My Antonia by Willa Cather ****

Until I Say Goodbye: A Book About Living by Susan Spencer-Wendel ***½

Web Things to Read

Your Health A to Z

How Cancer Changes Hope

A Definition of Blockchain

Are car headlights getting brighter

Find out how stuff works

Search For Clinical Trials

IRS Tax Brackets for 2020

Find Any Info On 50 States USA

It’s Time to Talk About Death

Time and Date World Clock

COVID Dashboard

COVID-19 In Virginia

List of My 5 Star Movies

Dolittle (for kids ****)

In A Valley Of Violence (western) ***

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood ****

Yesterday ****

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