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[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 7:09am

Today's Quote

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

-Erica Jong

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 6:59am

Today's Quote

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.

-Buddha

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 10:03am

Forgiveness isn't always easy, but it's always the best option.

-Me

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 6:53am

Today's Quote

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

-Albert Camus

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 7:47am

Today's Quote

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

-Anne Frank

AND:

When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.
-Tin Cup

Updated On: 7/18/06 at 07:47 AM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 5:47pm

Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor and halt all activity for an hour some day to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.
-James Truslow Adams

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 7:35am

Today's Quote

'New' doesn't equate with 'happy,' or there wouldn't be any antique stores.

-Wilfred Ford
And:

True healing has more to do with listening and unconditional love than fixing people.
-Gerald Jampolsky & Diane V. Cirincione

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 7:39am

Today's Quote

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

-Sudie Back

[jimnysf]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 8:18am

Hope is not a strategy.

Time will pass. Will you?

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 10:21am

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

And:

Today's Quote

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

-Robert Frost

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 12:53pm

only boring people get bored.

( & i believe it, too!)

[Pinky]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:45pm

"Don't be afraid to be outragous. The critics will shoot you down anyways." Laurence Olivier

"Do you know what they called the guy who graduated last in his class from medical school? Doctor." I know someone somewhere famous said that....but my dad said that to me when I didn't do so hot on my LSAT.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 8:47am

The first step towards change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do. It's something you allow.
-Will Garcia
And:
Today's Quote

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 9:06am

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
-Leo Buscaglia

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 8:34am

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
-Erma Bombeck
And:
Today's Quote

The more you have, the more you're occupied; the less you have, the more free you are.

-Mother Teresa

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 8:15am

Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give to this world and one another.
-Ram Dass

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 7:44am

It may be possible to incorporate laugher into daily activities, just as is done with other heart-healthy activities, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day.

-Michael Miller, MD, Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center
Today's Quote

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

-John Lubbock
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-James Baldwin
Today's Quote

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

-Herm

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 7:44am

Today's Quote

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?

-Yiddish proverb

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 12:59pm

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
-George Bernard Shaw
And:

Today's Quote

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

-Lady Bird Johnson

Updated On: 8/2/06 at 12:59 PM

[Nina Myers]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 7:22pm

I saw this somewhere, and now I've posted it everywhere:

Dime - a dollar with the taxes taken out.

Sadly, it is only too true.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 7:28am

Today's Quote

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

-Ovid

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/8/06 at 7:22am

Today's Quote

Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

-Lillian Smith
AND:
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
-Rachel Carson

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:52am

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it. Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.
-Sonia Choquette
AND:
Today's Quote

Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn't ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

-Lin Yutang

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 7:32am

We learn to fly not by becoming fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
-Sam Keen
And:
Today's Quote

Risk! Risk anything! ...Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

-Katherine Mansfield

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/14/06 at 8:40am

Today's Quote

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.

-Stanley Horowitz
AND:
Today's Quote

To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than before.

-Unknown
AND:

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
AND my favorite:

Today's Quote

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

-Chinese Proverb