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OT ✦ GOODNIGHT / Signed-on thread /BRB... - in Tropical Flower's honor
Posted Thu, 09/04/2008 - 05:46 — dawn4scifiOkay Podkido, it is time again for your sleepy time quotes.
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ~Psalms 84:10
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare
Podkido, I do not want to be where hell breathes out. Yuck.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons.
It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
Dr. Seuss
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? - it is the same the angels breathe. ~Mark Twain, "Roughing It"
Happy Boss Day!
The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
Beautiful one, Podkido.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry
LOL!! Love it!
As a woman, even if I have no children, I can attest that this would be so.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert
Goodnight Dawn,and Podkido...Dawn:I have an update for you,I start working at ORION on Monday....
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~ Les Brown
I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ~ Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
This one and some of the ones below it, need to be spread to the US and the government. Sigh.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ~ Thomas Jefferson
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~ [filtered word] Cheney
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce
For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~ John Cassis
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino