"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
—Christopher Columbus
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
— Tony Robbins
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
— Henry Ford
"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."
— William Ellery Channing
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection
we can catch excellence."
— Vince Lombardi
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
— Tony Robbins
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
—Mark Twain
"We become what we think about."
— Earl Nightingale
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."
— Vivian Greene
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
— Albert Einstein
"There is no love, there are only proofs of love."
— Pierre Reverdy
"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting."
— Walt Disney
""As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other is for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan"
—Eleanor Roosevelt
"Cruel, but composed and bland, dumb, inscrutable and grand. So Tiberius might have sat, had Tiberius been a cat."
— Matthew Arnold
"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."
—Charles Swindoll
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
—Ayn Rand
"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words"
— Unknown
"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
— Oprah Winfrey
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."
— Roger Staubach
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
— Booker T. Washington
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
— Grandma Moses
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
— Samuel Johnson
"The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence.
All passes; nothing returns."
— Ellen Glasgow
The nine scariest words in the English language: I'm from the government and I'm here to help
— Ronald Reagan
"The secret of happiness is something to do."
— John Burroughs
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
—Socrates
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
—Buddha
"The heart has reasons the brain know nothing of."
- Blaise Pascal
"When I was 5 years, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
— John Lennon
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
— Farrah Gray
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
— John Maynard
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
—Chinese Proverb
"Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."
— Unknown
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
— Confucius
"Tell and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin
"I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
— Benjamin Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
— Plato
"Success is a lousy teacher.
It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
— Bill Gates
"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have."
—Teddy Roosevelt
"Good friends are like stars, you don't always see them but you know they are there"
— Christy Evans
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"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
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
— George Addair
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit."
— Aristotle
"You never know how strong you are,
until being strong is your only choice."
— Christina Cuomo
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
—Anais Nin
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
—Rosa Parks
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
— Joshua J Marine
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
—Dalai Lama
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
—Norman Vincent Peale
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
— Maya Angelou
"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."
— Sir Claus Moser
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
— Dolly Parton
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."
—Henry Ford
"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day,
as each day came."
— Abe Lincoln
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
—Aristotle
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Cicero
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."
— Confucius
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
— Henry Ward Beecher
"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
—Vince Lombardi
"Every charitable act is a step toward heaven."
— Unknown
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
—Maya Angelou
"Three o'clock is always too late, or too early, for anything you want to do."
— -Jean Paul Sartre,"
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself
makes you fearless."
— Lao Tzu
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
— Frank Lloyd Wright
"It takes 20 years to make a reputation and only 5 minutes to destroy it"
— Warren Buffet
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, 'I'm possible' "
—Audrey Hepburn
"A truly rich man, is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
—Ziad K. Abdelnour
“One of the secrets of life is all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.”
— Lewis Carroll
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
—Leonardo da Vinci
"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."
—Ancient Indian Proverb
"Tommy Joe, don't take any wooden nickels."
— Dolly Hale (my Mom)
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."
— Abigail Van Buren
"There is always a barrier between me and someone who does not like dogs."
In 1935, a young couple in Armonk made a vow to chase rainbows together for the rest of their lives. Sixty years later, with many rainbows in their possession, they continue the chase...
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I recently installed a sensor in our mailbox that alerts us when the mailman arrives. We need this device because he is totally unreliable, and we never know when he will deliver our mail. ...
Our neighbors (Mary Beth & John) are great friends and for the past year have suffered some medical setbacks so my wife and I try to lend a hand whenever possible. Last week John needed. . . Read more
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—Christopher Columbus
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
— Tony Robbins
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
— Henry Ford
"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."
— William Ellery Channing
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection
we can catch excellence."
— Vince Lombardi
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
— Tony Robbins
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
—Mark Twain
"We become what we think about."
— Earl Nightingale
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."
— Vivian Greene
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
— Albert Einstein
"There is no love, there are only proofs of love."
— Pierre Reverdy
"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting."
— Walt Disney
""As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other is for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan"
—Eleanor Roosevelt
"Cruel, but composed and bland, dumb, inscrutable and grand. So Tiberius might have sat, had Tiberius been a cat."
— Matthew Arnold
"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."
—Charles Swindoll
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
—Ayn Rand
"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words"
— Unknown
"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
— Oprah Winfrey
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."
— Roger Staubach
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
— Booker T. Washington
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
— Grandma Moses
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
— Samuel Johnson
"The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence.
All passes; nothing returns."
— Ellen Glasgow
The nine scariest words in the English language: I'm from the government and I'm here to help
— Ronald Reagan
"The secret of happiness is something to do."
— John Burroughs
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
—Socrates
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
—Buddha
"The heart has reasons the brain know nothing of."
- Blaise Pascal
"When I was 5 years, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
— John Lennon
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
— Farrah Gray
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
— John Maynard
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
—Chinese Proverb
"Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."
— Unknown
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
— Confucius
"Tell and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin
"I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
— Benjamin Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
— Plato
"Success is a lousy teacher.
It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
— Bill Gates
"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have."
—Teddy Roosevelt
"Good friends are like stars, you don't always see them but you know they are there"
— Christy Evans
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"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
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
— George Addair
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit."
— Aristotle
"You never know how strong you are,
until being strong is your only choice."
— Christina Cuomo
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
—Anais Nin
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
—Rosa Parks
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
— Joshua J Marine
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
—Dalai Lama
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
—Norman Vincent Peale
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
— Maya Angelou
"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."
— Sir Claus Moser
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
— Dolly Parton
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."
—Henry Ford
"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day,
as each day came."
— Abe Lincoln
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
—Aristotle
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Cicero
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."
— Confucius
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
— Henry Ward Beecher
"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
—Vince Lombardi
"Every charitable act is a step toward heaven."
— Unknown
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
—Maya Angelou
"Three o'clock is always too late, or too early, for anything you want to do."
— -Jean Paul Sartre,"
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself
makes you fearless."
— Lao Tzu
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
— Frank Lloyd Wright
"It takes 20 years to make a reputation and only 5 minutes to destroy it"
— Warren Buffet
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, 'I'm possible' "
—Audrey Hepburn
"A truly rich man, is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
—Ziad K. Abdelnour
“One of the secrets of life is all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.”
— Lewis Carroll
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
—Leonardo da Vinci
"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."
—Ancient Indian Proverb
"Tommy Joe, don't take any wooden nickels."
— Dolly Hale (my Mom)
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."
— Abigail Van Buren
"There is always a barrier between me and someone who does not like dogs."
— Ellen Glasgow
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In 1935, a young couple in Armonk made a vow to chase rainbows together for the rest of their lives. Sixty years later, with many rainbows in their possession, they continue the chase...
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Our neighbors (Mary Beth & John) are great friends and for the past year have suffered some medical setbacks so my wife and I try to lend a hand whenever possible. Last week John needed. . .
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Nothing Left For Dreams To Steal
Share this...FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin When I sleep with you Maria, there’s nothing left for dreams to steal.” …George Strait 😊 I practice on the guitar every day, and I must admit that I’m not very good. That. . .
Read more
A Little Pocket of Greed
Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin It is generally accepted that there are seven deadly sins: Greed, Gluttony, Pride, Anger, Envy, Lust & Sloth (apathy, inactivity). This list will change from time to time,. . .
Read more
Looking Death in the Face
Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin A couple of weeks ago, I was given a surprise birthday party. My wife & I expected to be eating at a local restaurant with my son & daughter. . .
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There is prosperity in hope
Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin I think we all worry and I believe it is an internal wiring thing that requires us to do so. Myself, if I have nothing to worry about, my. . .
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Sure as Shootin’
Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin I am always aware of the day within each week because I do certain things on each day, i.e. run on Monday, Wednesday & Friday; lift weights on Tuesday,. . .
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Why The War on Cancer Has Fallen Short
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We older folks should be so wise
Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Last Sunday night my son flew in from western Tennessee to spend a few days with his sister and me. He couldn’t stay very long so we packed as. . .
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Let’s see how much fun we can have today
Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin I received a photo from a friend recently that was a wonderful gift. This is the coal camp in southwestern, VA that I grew up in. The guy on. . .
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Appointment in Samarra
A merchant in Baghdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions. Soon afterwards, the servant came home white and trembling and told him that in the marketplace he was jostled by a woman whom. . .
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Watching TV
We Americans, according to research studies, are more likely to watch television than engage in any activity other than sleeping and working. Studies show that what we watch can shape our thinking, political preferences, and. . .
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Teachers Make Excellent Friends
I read recently that forty of the fifty tallest mountains on earth are in Pakistan. I had absolutely no idea of that fact, showing just how little, I know about our planet’s geography. But, thinking. . .
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Goodbye Old Friend!
Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin On March 31st, one of my very best friends passed over to the other side, twenty-six days before she turned 80. I first met Mary Ann when she was. . .
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Be Still When You Have Nothing To Say….
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D. H. Lawrence
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“Summer Pleasures”
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
Sunshine beaming golden heat
For lots of fun outdoors;
Vacations, for a sweet retreat
To mountains, plains and shores.
Kids in constant summer motion,
Free from teacher’s rule,
Head to toe in suntan lotion,
At the beach or pool.
Inflatable rafts on which to float,
Camping and fishing gear,
Rowing or sailing or waterski boat,
Tell us summer’s here.
Things we can’t do the rest of the year
Are summer’s special treasures;
Oh summer, summer, linger long,
And give us all your pleasures!
Source: https://www.poemsource.com/rhyming-poems.html
~ Joanna Fuchs
Books I’m Reading
The Shell Seekers by Roseamunde Pilcher
War Beneath The Sea: Submarine Conflict During WW II by Peter Padfield
Three Stores & 10 Poems by Ernest Hemingway
Washington’s End: The Final Years And Forgotten Struggle by Jonathan Horn
Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly
American Revolution by Robert McDonald
The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
The Scientists Who Changed History by DK
Three Days In January by Bret Baier & Courtney Whitney
Web Things to Read
The Forgotten Town, The Forgotten Backwater by Cheryl Isaac
Terms You Will Only
Know If You Live In The South
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 ****