Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), April 27, 2001

Answers

Gandhi was asked to describe in twenty-five words or less what his life mission was...

He said, “I could do it in three: Renounce and enjoy.” You renounce all worldly attachment to everything and enjoy what God gives you. You give away what you have inside yourself, your love. You’re not concerned with whether it worked or didn’t work, Whether it was right or wrong, whether you won or lost. You just constantly flow through your life without getting attached to the results. The irony is that the less attached you are, the more you get. The more you keep circulating, the more keeps coming back to you. It’s a flowing system.

--Wayne Dwyer

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), April 27, 2001.

When the tornado comes, will you hide in your basement or will you stand on your roof letting the wind blow your hair into a mohawk and shouting, "I knew you were coming, you bastard, that's why I didn't rake the leaves!"?

Fireman's Fund Ad

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), April 27, 2001.

"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks." - Joe E. Lewis

-- (cin@cin.cin), April 27, 2001.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

-- Voltaire

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), April 27, 2001.

The definition of success is to be able to go from failure to failure without any lose of enthusiasm --Churchill--

Mar.

-- Not now, not like this (AgentSmith0110@aol.com), April 27, 2001.

"Whenever you leave the house, don't forget your asses, glasses, and passes."

My grandfather

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), April 27, 2001.

'Debra, you could make the pope swear.'

-My Father

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), April 27, 2001.

You're tryin' to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

- my grandaddy

-- flora (***@__._), April 27, 2001.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 28, 2001.

And FOR THE RECORD, "J" is not me.

--Dennis Olson

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), April 28, 2001.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

--Booker T. Washington

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), April 28, 2001.

FWIW

I dont believe either J's.

sumer

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), April 28, 2001.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), April 28, 2001.

My husband said it was him or the cat ... I miss him sometimes

-- (cin@cin.cin), April 28, 2001.

'Oh dennis go take a flying leap thru a donut hole.'

~sumer~

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), April 28, 2001.

"A lotta stupid people graduate from college."

"It's not money, but the *lack* of money that makes the difference."

"You can be poor anywhere."

"Variety is the not the spice of life, but rather the *spouses* of life." {My father, all of the above.}

"He who knows not that he knows not, knows not. Unknown

"When poverty comes in the door, romance flies out the window." Victoria Fambrough

"I've spent my entire life dispensing with illusions." MAT

"It's like the end of the world!" Aunt PittyPat

-- MAT (more@quotes.com), April 29, 2001.

"It is in the 30s that we want friends. In the 40s we know they won't save us any more than love did."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), April 29, 2001.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

--Napoleon Hill

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), April 29, 2001.

I used to have a handle on life...

then it broke

-- (cin@cin.cin), April 29, 2001.

"Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a minute to make a dark day seem bright. Hope you find the one that makes you smile."

-- (great@big.smile), April 29, 2001.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

--Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

-- Absence Making (heart@grow.fonder), April 29, 2001.

In times of change...

Learners inherit the earth,

While the learned

Find themselves beautifully equipped

to deal with a world

that no longer exists.

--Erik Hoffer

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 29, 2001.

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength....

--Hasidic saying

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), April 30, 2001.

"Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting THE ONE."-- Ian Philpot

-- (cin@cin.cin), April 30, 2001.

"Go out back and get me a switch!!"

-- My Momma --

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), April 30, 2001.

"Ignatowski, you've got a father? Well, there goes my spore theory."

-- Louie DePalma

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), April 30, 2001.

It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

--Gore Vidal

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), May 01, 2001.

"To laugh often and love much, to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived that is to have succeeded."

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 01, 2001.

Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don't believe in romance.

--Jean Zheng.

-- (I @ believe. in. it), May 01, 2001.

Go outside and pick me a switch and you better get a good one, you DONT EVEN want ME going out there.

My mom, may she rest in peace.

Deano, can i relate or what? :-)

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), May 01, 2001.

sumer

Unfortunately, I made MANY trips out back for switches. AND sometimes she sent me right back out for a 'better' one. I don't miss them at all (but sometimes, late at night, I can still hear them....;-)

Eve

THAT WAS A CLASSIC!!!

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), May 01, 2001.

The Second Coming

by William Butler Yeats

First Published in 1922

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of i{Spiritus Mundi}

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), May 01, 2001.

I shouldn't have precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), May 01, 2001.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

- Tom Waits

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), May 01, 2001.

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

~ Leo Stein ~

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), May 01, 2001.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

--Albert Schweitzer

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), May 02, 2001.

WOW Unk, I really really like that one =)

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 02, 2001.

"Every great achievement was once considered impossible."

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 02, 2001.

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours....

-- (Ralph @Waldo .Emerson), May 02, 2001.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

-- George Orwell

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), May 02, 2001.

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It make us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside To the source of peace and inspiration When we are faced with problems and challenges.

--Deepak Chopra

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), May 03, 2001.

I hate quotations.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), May 03, 2001.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God
And die to find out there isn't...

Than live my life as if there isn't
And die to find out there is.



-- (cin@cin.cin), May 03, 2001.

A witty saying proves nothing.

-- Voltaire

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), May 03, 2001.

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all--friends?

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), May 04, 2001.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

--Willy Wonka

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), May 04, 2001.

Those who hear not the music
Think the dancers mad.



-- (cin@cin.cin), May 04, 2001.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."

--Ken Keys

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), May 05, 2001.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life: the evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

--Byron

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), May 05, 2001.

" Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?"

--- Marcel Marceau

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 05, 2001.

" You can't do anything about the length of your life,

but you can do something about its width and depth."

-- one more (cin@cin.cin), May 05, 2001.

"It is not depravity that affects the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence."

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), May 05, 2001.

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

--Judy Garland

-- one last (quote@of.the.day), May 05, 2001.

Plato: To do is to be.

Aristole: To be is to do.

Shakespeare: To be or not to be; that is the question.

Frank Sinatra: Do-be, do-be, Do

AZ

-- AZ (Just@home.here.com), May 05, 2001.

I thought Marcel Marceau couldn't speak.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), May 05, 2001.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. -- Plato

Plato was a bore. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. -- Leo Tolstoy

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. -- Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway was a jerk. -- Harold Robbins

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), May 05, 2001.

Knowing that you are a child of God,

make up your mind to be calm whatever happens. Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind,

refuse to be affected; Wait calmly while seeking the remedy.

Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace. You cannot buy peace; you must know how to manufacture it within, in the stillness of your daily practices in meditation.

--Paramahansa Yogananda

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), May 06, 2001.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

--Howard Aiken

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), May 06, 2001.

" One can never hope to discover new oceans if they don't have the courage to lose sight of the shore. "

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 06, 2001.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side....

-- (Hugh@ Prather.quote), May 06, 2001.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

--Bertrand Russell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), May 07, 2001.

Figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You've all that the greatest of men have had;
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,
And a brain to use if you would be wise,
With this equipment they all began--
So start from the top and say, I CAN.

Look them over, the wise and the great,
They take their food from a common plate,
And similar knives and forks they use,
With similar laces they tie their shoes;
The world considers them brave and smart,
But you've all they had when they made their start.

You can triumph and come to skill,
You can be great if you only will;
You're well equipped for what fight you choose,
You have arms and legs and a brain to use;
And the man who has risen great deeds to do
Began his life with no more than you.

You are the handicap you must face,
You are the one who must choose your place.
You must say where you want to go,
How much you will study the truth to know;
God has equipped you for life, but He
Lets you decide what you want to be.

Courage must come from the soul within
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it out for yourself my lad,
You were born with all that the great have had;
With your equipment they all began,
Get hold of yourself and say, I CAN."

--- George Washington Carver

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 07, 2001.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

--Midori Koto

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), May 08, 2001.

Lot's of people want to ride with you in the limo,
But what you want is someone who will take the bus with you,
When the limo breaks down.

--- Oprah Winfrey ---

-- (cin@cin.cin), May 08, 2001.