invest in your life

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt

cheer

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
~Buddy the Elf (ELF movie)

growth

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~Ronald E. Obsorn

dog's love

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
~Josh Billings

selfishness

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
~Oscar Wilde

forgive/forget

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
~Thomas Szasz

becoming

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
~J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire)

the art of living

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~Henry Ellis

believe

Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'
~Dr. Robert H. Schuller

joy

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
~Helen Keller

kindness

One kind word can warm three winter months.
~Japanese proverb

life pursuits

Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
~Albert Einstein

World AIDS Day

It's bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.
~Elizabeth Taylor

black friday

A bargain isn't a bargain unless it's something you need.
~Sidney Carroll

easy words to live by

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
~Abraham Lincoln

thankful

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

hugs

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.

success

Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves.
~Tom Morris

friends

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends we choose.
~Tennessee Williams

friend

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
(thanks for dinner ladies)

truly living

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
~Henry Drummond

birthday

All the world is a birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
~George Harrison

wish

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
~Javan

work together

Let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other.
~Barack Obama

OBAMA wins

We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

life

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 some day in life, you will have been all of these.
~George Washington Carver

life

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
~Robert Frost

connect

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
~Herman Melville

waiting

We seem to have focused so much on exuberant beginnings and victorious endings that we've forgotten about the slow, sometimes tortuous, unraveling of grace that takes place in the 'middle places'. We have to relearn that things in life don't come suddenly.
~Sue Monk Kidd (adapted)

autumn

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

happiness viewpoint

I am more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
~K. Wilhelm von Humboldt

keep progressing

If you really want something, work hard, take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.
~Jane Goodall

argument

The aim of an argument should not be victory, but progress.
~Joseph Joubert

doing the right thing

Doing the right thing means you ask for nothing in return. When things really work, it's because people realize that we all save one another... we manage to save each other.
~Benzair Bhutto

opinions

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
~Les Brown

a call from a long-lost pal

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~Ashley Montagu

chances

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
~Julia Soul

failure

The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
~Marianne Williamson

thoughts

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
~John Stuart Mill

standpoints

Three-fourths of the miseries and the misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
~Gandhi

change

If we don't want to change and develop, then we might as well remain in a death-like sleep.
~Bruno Bettelheim

blessing

may i live this day
compassionate of heart
clear in word
gracious in awareness
courageous in thought
generous in love
~J. O'Donohue

power

Not the power to conquer others, but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.
~Sri Chinmoy

reinforce

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.
~Brian Tracy

autumn

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~Elizabeth Lawrence

belief

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
~Gandhi

attitude

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it.
~Norman Vincent Peale

maturity

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.
~Sydney J. Harris

what matters

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~Albert Einstein

laugh

Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough.
~Red Skelton

doing good

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.
~Mother Theresa

flow

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
~Chuang Tzu

right action

A person cannot do right in one department of life whilst attempting to do wrong in another department. Life is one indivisible whole.
~Gandhi

effectiveness

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.
~unknown

yesterday

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
~Cherokee proverb

small actions

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
~Marian Wright Edelman

mistake

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
~Henry Ford

countdown to Jim Gaffigan on 8/16

They recently invented the breakfast hot pocket, FINALLY. I can’t think of a better way to start the day; Good morning... you’re about to call in sick. Now I can have a Hot Pocket for breakfast, a Hot Pocket for lunch, and be DEAD by dinner.
~Jim Gaffigan

countdown to Jim Gaffigan on 8/16

There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don't want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.
~Jim Gaffigan

countdown to Jim Gaffigan on 8/16

I'm not a strict vegetarian. I do eat beef and pork. But not fish 'cause that's disgusting! How do you know when fish goes bad, it still smells like fish?! 'Hey this smells like a dumpster, lets eat it!
~Jim Gaffigan

countdown to Jim Gaffigan on 8/16

Pie can’t compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it’s a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody’s drunk in the kitchen.
~Jim Gaffigan

enjoy

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
~William Feather

location, location, location

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
~Stephen Wright

future

You can never plan the future by the past.
~Edmund Burke

kind

Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

lead

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams

passions

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
~Julia Child

growth

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
~Shirley Hufstedler

influence

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
~Scott Adams

experience

Don't cheat anyone out of their experience, whatever it is.
~Andre Agassi

best

There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals.
~Hosea Ballou

friend

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~Albert Camus

mistake

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
~Katherine Graham

life

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
~Harvey Fierstein

aging

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
~George Burns

attitude

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
~Albert Einstein

wise

All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
~Publilius Syrus

difficulties

The gem cannot be polished without friction.
~Chinese proverb

will

It’s not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
~Hakeem Olajuwon

summer

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

~Ada Louise Huxtable

choice

Why do you stay in your prison
when the door is so wide open?
~Rumi

challenge

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

~Joseph Campbell

content

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

~William Howard Stein

quality of man

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
~Adlai Stevenson II

worry

Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
~Unknown

humanity

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
~Cicero

talk

For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no one - and brings some peace into your beautiful eyes.
~Hafiz

character

Our lives teach us who we are.
~Salman Rushdie

values

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.
~Elvis Presley

alive

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~Thornton Wilder

lesson

Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path, but the lesson to be learned is always ours.

~unknown

laugh

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
~Maya Angelou

together

The thing to remember is, if we're all alone - then we're all together in that way too.
~'P.S. I love you' (2007)

life

Life teaches everyone - however long that may take.
~Paulo Coelho

challenges

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon

adopt a butterfly at MOSI

Symbolically adopt a butterfly at MOSI in Tampa, FL. The money raised helps fund educational programs and exhibits. Details are at-> http://www.mosi.org/

intelligence

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

~Rene Descartes

choices

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~JK Rowling

self

We are what we repeatedly do.
~Aristotle

life

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
~unknown

falling

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall.
~Confucius

content

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

~Doris Mortman

admiration

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
~Abraham Joshua Heschel

fulfillment

The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.
~Camryn Manheim

being yourself

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
~unknown

fortitude

You've got the guts to find your own purpose.
~Madeleine Albright

opportunities

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

~Flora Whittemore

failure

A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
~J.Paul Getty

questioning

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

~Albert Einstein

change

The key to change... is to let go of fear.
~Rosanne Cash

moving forward

"...what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."
~Anatole France

young

The heart that loves is always young.

~unknown

life

Everything is changeable.
~Buddha

learn

Let your teacher be life itself.
~Rumi

aspirations

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
~Louisa May Alcott

simple

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~Confucius

Flow & Float Yoga Workshop (05/10/08)

ask

If you don't ask, you don't get.
~Mahatma Gandhi