A thought for the Day

[Disney Doll]

Hey montessori!!!!! 52 pages later and the Shakers break it down to 6 lines!!!!! Thanks!!!! It's a great one!!!!

 

[EROS]

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend -- and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.

Immanuel Kant

 

[Dan Murphy]

Very simple indeed, montessori. Sounds like that just about says it all. Thanks for sharing.

Live with kindness

Though it may seem that your kindness is not always appreciated, it does indeed have an impact every time. The less it seems to be appreciated, the more it is needed, and the more of a positive difference it can make.
Kindness is not something that becomes depleted when it is used. The more true, unconditional kindness you offer, the more you will have to offer, and the more there will be for everyone.

Genuine kindness is not an act of weakness or capitulation, but rather a powerful demonstration of confidence in your purpose. Not at all naive or unrealistic, kindness is a sign of true strength and real sophistication.

Kindness does not mean allowing others to take advantage of you or of anyone else. Kindness means doing what you know is right and creating real, substantial, lasting value for those around you.

Live and act with kindness, and the value of each action is multiplied many, many times over. Live with kindness and you live with the power to make a difference in every life you touch.

-- Ralph Marston

 

[EROS]

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

 

[Disney Doll]

Don't major in minor things.--Life's Little Instruction Book

 

[EROS]

I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test -- even by indirection.

John F. Kennedy

 

[Dan Murphy]

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

-- Martin Luther

 

[EROS]

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Disney Doll]

I like that one, Dan .

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.--Life's Little Instruction Book

 

[EROS]

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes -- it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

H. G. Wells

 

[JAP]

I am sure I have posted this before but I like it:

---How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. ---George Washington Carver

 

[EROS]

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

 

[Dan Murphy]

Mr. Carver knew a lot more than just those peanuts, Jen. Thanks, great words.

Desperate ambition

Desperately wanting something is not very likely to bring it about. Your sense of want and your desperation serve mainly to perpetuate an attitude of lack and limitation.
Rather than putting your energy into wanting something, put your energy into creating it. Instead of following a desperate kind of ambition, live with a confident kind of acceptance. Know that no matter what happens, there is a way for you to move positively forward. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of anything is often your idea that it cannot be.

Think as if, act as if what you seek is already taking shape, and it will be. Open yourself to the magnificent abundance in which you're immersed, and let go of all thoughts of lack and limitation.

Move beyond that painful, ineffective, desperate kind of ambition. Step forward with confidence and assurance to bring about the reality of whatever you seek.

-- Ralph Marston

 

[Disney Doll]

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you're going after Moby Dick, take along a little tartar sauce.--Life's Little Instruction Book

 

[Lanshark]

2 Thessalonians 2

15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings
we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by
letter.
16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who
loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement
and good hope,
17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good
deed and word.

 

[Deb in IA]

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Anonymous

 

[JC2]

There are some great thoughts on here!
Lanshark - love that scripture!
Deb, such an excellent quote!

Thank you everyone who shares thoughts on here!

 

[EROS]

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

James Randi

 

[Saphire]

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

--French Proverb

 

[EROS]

I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

Chet Raymo