MY FAVORITE QUOTES

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."

- Mother Teresa

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

- Oscar Wilde

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."

- Dale Carnegie

"The art of conversation lies in listening."

- Malcom S. Forbes

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"What is death, but one second between life on this earth and a leap into the arms of God."

- Kahlil Gibrand

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

- Bertrand Russell

"Never wrestle with a pig, because you just get dirty, and the pig likes it."

- Unknown

“Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.”

- David Deutsch

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."

- Arnold Palmer

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."

-Robert Baden-Powell

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

- Denis Diderot

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

- Bertrand Russell

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds."

- Brian Tracy

"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”

- Horace Mann

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"And what is the purpose of existence… but to discover truth and beauty and…share it with others"

- Brenda Ueland

"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially."

- Socrates

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Alan Kay

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen Covey

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."

- Viktor Frankl

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."

- Ancient Indian Proverb

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

- Washington Irving

"You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground."

- Unknown

My Current WoW

Brandon

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Dad

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My Favorite Sport

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My Granpa’s Dilemma

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The Silence of Loneliness

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Betty’s Gift of Berries

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Kindness and Determination

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Three Missing Teeth

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AS MY WORLD TURNS

At the Acme

I picked up a grocery list someone left in their card. The last item was, "Don't forget the love", next to a drawn heart.

Reading that line a feeling unfolded in me that love's red threat runs through all things.

So, I watched to see it in action and there it was, a father, arms heavy with groceries stopping to make funny faces to soothe his crying child.

A man, hands shaking with age being helped by a young woman to bag his peaches. And, a voice in my head said

that love was a doing, a moment shared not based on schemes or profit or discourse. Love has its own discourse in the heart.

Oh, I know the risks, how love can explode in our face like gunpowder. How its quixotic riptides push us to make hurried declarations.

Or like a crowbar it can pry our heart open against our will. But now, here at the checkout line, I want to add it as a major food group - 

tuck it in my bag along with the paper towels, carrots, and peas.

 

 

~ Roshi Ray Cicetti ~

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