A Little More About Dogs...

 Our best friends...

" The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. "

Mark Twain

"  If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you,

 but there may be something wrong with your life. "

Roger Caras

" Every dog must have its day. "

Jonathan Swift

" Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, 

and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. "

John Grogan

 " My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty. "

Elayne Boosler

" The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment. "

Robert Falcon Scott

" No matter how little money and few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. "

Louis Sabin

" Opening up your life to a dog who needs a home is one of the most fulfilling things you can do. "

Emma Kenney

" Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like;

 afterwards, you can't imagine living any other way. "

Caroline Knapp

" My little dog -  a heartbeat at my feet. "

Edith Wharton

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A Mixed Bag Of Quotes.

Always interesting.

" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. "

H.G. Wells ( 1866-1946 )

" It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. "

H.G. Wells ( 1866-1946 )

" I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep;

 I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. "

Alexander the Great ( 356 BC-323 BC )

" No person was ever honored for what he received. 

Honor has been the reward for what he gave. "

Calvin Coolidge ( 1872-1933 )

" It takes a great man to be a good listener. "

Calvin Coolidge  ( 1872-1933 )

" Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier. "

Christopher Columbus  ( 1451-1506 )

" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. "

F.Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896-1940 )

" The world as a rule does not live on beaches and in country clubs. "

F.Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896-1940 )

" Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,

 but to do what lies clearly at hand. "

Thomas Carlyle ( 1795-1881 )

" Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. "

Thomas Carlyle ( 1795-1881 )

" The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. "

Robert Baden-Powell ( 1857-1941 )

" I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy live. "

Robert Baden-Powell ( 1857-1941 )

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A Mother's Day Tribute.

 Some more quotes.

" God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. "

Rudyard Kipling

" A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children soundly sleep in them. "

Victor Hugo

" If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? "

Milton Berle

" The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. "

James E. Faust

" A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. "

Amy Tan

" The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. "

Honore de Balzac

" Having kids-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. "

Maria Shriver

" There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood. "

Elder M. Russell Ballard

" Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother. "

Unknown

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A Little Bit Of Feeling Good.

 Others have said it better...

" Instead of going out for dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it is more important to make yourself feel good. "

Ina Garten

" One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself...to take care of yourself. "

Goldie Hawn

" What is moral is what you feel good after, what is immoral is what you feel bad after. "

Ernest Hemingway

" When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. 

When you look up, you go up. "

Herschel Walker

" If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate. "

Patti Smith

" I am constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call a person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business. "

Zig Ziglar

" It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, 

but that can't be your end game goal. "

Jessica Capshaw

" I love singing in the car, it makes me feel good. "

Scotty McCreery

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Some Inspiration.

 Quotes.

 " Believe you can and you're halfway there. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" I can't change the direction of the wind,

 but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. "

Jimmy Dean

" Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. "

Francis of Assisi

" 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

" To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. "

Lao Tzu

" If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. "

Milton Berle

" Change your thoughts and you change your world. "

Norman Vincent Peale

" Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

" If we did all things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. "

Thomas A. Edison

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A Bit From Leonardo da Vinci.

 Wisdom from the past...

" There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" Water is the driving force of all nature. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. "

Leonardo da Vince ( 1452-1519 )

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" Just as courage is the danger of life, so fear is its safeguard. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" The length of a man's outstretched arms is equal to his height. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" Nature never breaks her own laws. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

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A Bit Of Esoteric From Louise L. Hay.

 Quotes.

" I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. "

Louise L. Hay

" Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. "

Louise L. Hay

" I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves. "

Louise L. Hay

" When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives. "

Louise L. Hay

" The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. "

Louise L. Hay

" Every thought you think and every word you speak is an affirmation. All of your self-talk, your internal dialogue, is a stream of affirmations. You are using affirmations every moment whether you know it or not. You're affirming  and creating your life experiences with every word and thought. "

Louise L. Hay

" All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. 

Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe. "

Louise L. Hay

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The Gardening Season Is About To Begin.

A bit of therapy?

" Just for one's health, it is very necessary to work in the garden and to see the flowers growing. "

Vincent van Gogh

" You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. "

Anonymous

" Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and the sky as canvas. "

Elizabeth Murray

 

" When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form a lasting impression on your heart. "

Muso Soseki

" You never know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree. "

Micheal Portillo

" Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful:

 they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. "

Greek Proverb

" Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love. "

Rumi

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Some Happiness For The Weekend.

 Quotes...

" Happiness is a warm puppy. "

Charles M. Schulz

" Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. "

Dalai Lama

" We suffer more often in imagination than reality. "

Seneca

" He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. "

Lao Tzu

" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. "

Dale Carnegie

" A flower blossoms for its own joy. "

Oscar Wilde

" Happiness is not a goal...It's a by-product of a life well lived. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, 

life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. "

Maya Angelou

" The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. "

Marcus Aurelius 

" Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? "

L. M. Montgomery

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A Little Bit Of Amazing.

 Quotes...

" It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credits. "

Harry S. Truman

" Amazement awaits us at every corner. "

James Brougthon

" If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. "

Noam Chomsky

" It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. "

Leo Tolstoy

" I thank you God for this amazing day, for the leaping green spirits of the trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. "

e.e. cummings

" The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences.  Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. "

Steven Spielberg

" I have a great family, I live an amazing life. "

John Oates

" Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation? "

Zig Ziglar

" For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience. "

Wolfgang Puck

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A Little Bit Of Age...

Oh the worry...

" Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. " 

Mark Twain

" Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. "

George Sand

" Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. "

Henry Ford

" Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class 

is running the country. "

Kurt Vonnegut

" It is not how old you are, but how you are old. "

Jules Renard

" Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see the shadows, which are morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" We are always the same age inside. "

Gertrude Stein

" Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. "

Thomas Browne

" It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. "

Brigitte Bardot

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A Bit More History.

 Old quotes.

" A life well spent is long. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" Every man at three years old is half his height. "

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )

" Who loves not woman, wine, and song remains a fool his whole life long. "

Martin Luther ( 1483-1546 )

" To God I speak in Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse-German. "

Emperor Charles V ( 1500-1558 )

" I cannot forecast to you the actions of Russia.

 It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. "

Sir Winston Churchill ( 1874-1965 )   October 1, 1939

" History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. "

Alexis de Tocqueville  ( 1805-1859 )

" Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world,

 for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. "

René Descartes ( 1596-1650 )

" Drive out prejudices through the door, and they will return through the window. "

Frederic the Great ( 1712-1786 )

" Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. "

Immanuel Kant ( 1724-1804 )

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A Few Quotes About Dogs.

 They are so cute...

" A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. "

Josh Billings

" The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back 

when you go out the door without them. "

Stanley Coren

" When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of person you are.

 The dog is not judging you. "

Eckart Tolle

" You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him. "

W. Bruce Cameron

" Everybody should have a shelter dog. It's good for the soul. "

Paul Shaffer

" Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. 

They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human. "

Cesar Milan

" My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. "

Edith Wharton

" My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day with my blankie,

 my cat, and my dog. "

Anne Lamott

" There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. "

Ben Williams

" If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket

 and then give him only two of them. "

Phil Pastoret

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A Little Bit About Courage.

 History, a learning ground.

" What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "

T. S. Eliot 

" Courage is being scared to death...and saddling up anyway. "

John Wayne

" Courage is grace under pressure. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. "

Anais Nin

" Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. "

Amelia Earhart

" He is a man of courage who does not run away, 

but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. "

Socrates 

" Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. "

Eddie Rickenbacker

" Fate loves the fearless. "

James Russel Lowell

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Time To Call In Our Guardian Angels.

 All we have to do is ask!

" Be an Angel to someone else wherever you can, 

as a way of thanking God for the help your Angel has given you. "

Eileen Elias Freeman

" Angels mend our patchwork hearts with threads of love. "

Terri Guillemets

" All God's Angels come to us disguised. "

James Russell Lowell

" Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is rest 

and let your Angels wrap you in their loving wings. They've got you covered. "

Anne Taylor

" Angels understand our prayers even if we don't find the words to say them. "

Anonymous

" Music is well said to be the speech of Angels. "

Thomas Carlyle 

" Make friends with the Angels, who though invisible, are always with you. "

St. Francis  de Sales

" Open your mind to listen and your eyes to see 

and let your Angels guide you to where you should be. "

Mary Jac

" Calling upon the Angels when we are in need, 

helps the Angels fulfill their heavenly mission. We are truly co-creators with them. "

Eileen Anglin

" The Angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A Hope For Peace.

 Again, others have said it best.

" I prefer peace. But if trouble must come,

 let it come in my time, so that my children  can live in peace. "

Thomas Paine

" People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready

 to do violence on their behalf. "

George Orwell

" An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. "

Mahatma Gandhi

" Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. "

Albert Einstein

" You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. "

Indira Gandhi

" Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; 

peace is our gift to each other. "

Elie Wiesel

" Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. "

Thomas Merton

" To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. "

George Washington

" The soldier above all others prays for peace,

 for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. "

Douglas MacArthur

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Finding Positivity And Strength.

 Looking for the good in a changed world.

" Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. "

Helen Keller

" Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;

 the most massive characters are seared with scars. "

Khalil Gibran

" You have power over your mind-not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Only the weak are cruel.  Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. "

Leo Buscaglia

" Find a place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. "

Joseph Campbell

" It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. "

Daniel Kahneman

" Perhaps I am stronger than I think. "

Thomas Merton

" Positive anything is better than negative nothing. "

Elbert Hubbard

" The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. "

Confucius

" A good laugh is sunshine in the house. "

William Makepeace Thackeray

" With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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A Bit More Ancient Philosophy & Wisdom.

 Philosophers of yore.

" No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. "

Heraclitus ( 544 BC-483 BC )

" Most powerful is he who has himself  in his own power. "

Seneca ( ca. 4 BC-65 AD )

" Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. "

Democritus ( 460 BC-370 BC ) 

" There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. "

Epictetus ( 50-138 )

" We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. "

Epictetus ( 50-138 )

" The cautious seldom err. "

Confucius ( 551 BC-479 BC )

" The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. "

Plato ( 427 BC-347 BC )

" The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. "

Plato ( 427 BC-347 BC )

" The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. "

Democritus ( 460 BC-370 BC )

" Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. "

Heraclitus ( 544 BC-483 BC )

" An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. "

Plutarch ( 46-120 )

" To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. "

Plutarch ( 46-120 )

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Can't Forget About Valentines, Can I?

Some more quotes.

" It's not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. "

William Shakespeare

" Being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, 

while loving someone deeply gives you courage. "

Lao Tzu

" Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. "

William Shakespeare

" If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. "

Alfred Tennyson

" A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love,

 from love to matrimony in a moment. "

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

" We love the things we love for what they are. "

Robert Frost

" He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. "

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights 

" Where there is love there is life."

Mahatma Gandhi

" Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house,

 you can never tell. "

Joan Crawford

" What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Some Of Franz Kafka's Quotes.

Timeless?

" Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. "

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )

" God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. "

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )

" Association with human beings  lures one into self-observation. "

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )

" How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. "

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )

" A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. "

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )

" You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. "

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )

" Start with what is right rather than with what is acceptable. "

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )

" So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. "

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 )

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