With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

- Ezra Taft Benson

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Thomas Edison

ptcscrutiny wrote: There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Thomas Edison

No one has ever become poor by giving.

- Anne Frank

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

- Coco Chanel

SentinelOnyx wrote: Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

- Voltaire

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One snowflake for each of my buddies oberder, ptcscrutiny and papamike51. Hope this post will not get frozen.

So nice. Thanks

oberder wrote:

SentinelOnyx wrote:

papamike51 wrote:

SentinelOnyx wrote: Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I miss the snow. Usually we have some by now, but this year...Nothing.

Me too, I spent my childhood in north part of Croatia where snow was falling every winter. 13 years ago moved to the town on the sea and here there is no snow at all.

Still can`t get used to it after all these years, winter and holidays aren`t the same without snow. Some of my best chilhood memories are related to snow falling for days, and cleaning it with my father using big snow showels.

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not;
and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

*sniff* I wish it was snowing where I am...

...oh... waitaminutethere... I'm in the tropics... Oooppsie--

Give it time, with global "warming" that may happen sooner than you think.

A Psalm of Life

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

by --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.


-Harvey Mackay

amkrock wrote: When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.


-Harvey Mackay

I don't mean to throw a monkey wrench in your engine, but there are a couple of alternatives....

You can be apathetic and not give a darn.
You can be a realist and accept things as determined by fate or faith.

Not that I prescribe to either of those, I'm an optimist, but I just wanted to point it out.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

- Victor Hugo

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
-Albert Einstein

Duya-1 wrote: "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
-Albert Einstein

Quote already mentioned in post #279

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Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

- Vince Lombardi

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

-Steven Wright

''I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.''

-George W. Bush

"Only love can be divided endlessly, and still not diminish"
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh