Positive Thought For The Day:

[Shasha]

Especially for ALL my DIET BUDDIES:

[Shasha]

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."
- George Eliot{elmo}

[Shasha]

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
- Eleanor Roosevelt:artist:

[Shasha]

"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success.
So give as much care to the end as to the beginning."
- Loa-Tzu:innocent3:

[Shasha]

"Victory is won not in miles but in inches.
Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."
- Louis L'Amour {hammer}

[Shasha]

"When the heart speaks,
the mind finds it indecent to object."
- Milan Kundera :love4:

[Shasha]

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this -
YOU HAVEN'T."
- Thomas Edison {cheerleader}

[Shasha]

"Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible, and
suddenly you are doing the impossible."
- St. Francis of Assisi {wave}

[Shasha]

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
- Alfred Adler :innocent4:

[Shasha]

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
But the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain {boing}

[Shasha]

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
- John Ruskin:jumping2:

[Shasha]

"Nothing will ever be attempted
if all possible objections must first be overcome."
- Samuel Johnson {cheerleader}

[Shasha]

"Always do the things you fear the most.
Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar."
- Erica Jong{band}

[Shasha]

"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always;
this occupation ought to last as long as life."
- Queen Christina:artist:

[Shasha]

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Only one feat is possible — not to have run away."
- Dag Hammarskjold:plane:

[Shasha]

"Hope is like a road in the country;
There was never a road, but when many people walk on it,
The road comes into existence."
- Lin Yutang {boing}

[Shasha]

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
- Edgar Watson Howe :cop:

[Shasha]

"I care not what others think of what I do,
But I care very much about what I think of what I do!
That is character."
- Theodore Roosevelt :thinking:

[Shasha]

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything,
the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is,
in the long run, the easiest."
- Henry Miller :clapping3:

[Shasha]

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces,
Never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
- Flavia Weedn {boing}

[Shasha]

"If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
- Gail Sheehy :jumping2:

[Shasha]

"We are made to persist.
That's how we find out who we are."
- Tobias Wolff
So just continue to say: {noway}

[Shasha]

"To be thin in body;
Must be thin in mind :thinking:
- AZKAT

[Shasha]

"Excellence is not an act but a habit.
The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."
- Marva Collins :bighug:

[Shasha]

"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it."
- Robin Williams :party3:

[Shasha]

"When thinking won’t cure fear, action will."
- William Clement Stone :weights2:

[Shasha]

"I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that.
Then I realized I was a somebody.”
- Lily Tomlin :innocent3:

[Shasha]

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth,
But by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
- Leo Tolstoy {wave}

[Shasha]

"We have to fight them daily, like fleas,
those many small worries about the morrow,
for they sap our energies.”
- Eva Hillesum {bat}

[Shasha]

"To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth
which constitutes self-respect is
potentially to have everything.”
- Joan Didion :bighug:

[Shasha]

"There are two ways of exerting one’s strength:
One is pushing down,
The other is pulling up.”
- Booker T. Washington {wave}

[MrsPeel]

A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.

[Shasha]

"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
- George Orwell :innocent3:

[Shasha]

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”
- Sara Teasdale :innocent2:

[Shasha]

”We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.”
- Calvin Coolidge :bighug:

[Shasha]

”When you have a great and difficult task,
something perhaps almost impossible,
if you only work a little at a time, every day a little,
suddenly the work will finish itself."
- Isak Dinesen {elmo}

[Shasha]

”Hope begins in the dark,
the stubborn hope that if you just show up and
try to do the right thing,
the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work:
You don’t give up."
- Anne Lamott :artist:

[Shasha]

”I get up.
I walk.
I fall down.
Meanwhile, I keep dancing."
- Rabbi Hillel :dance:

[Shasha]

”The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt {cheerleader}

[Shasha]

”I have accepted fear as a part of life,
Specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown.
I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says:
Turn back, turn back; you’ll die if you venture too far."
- Erica Jong :party1:

[Shasha]

”The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
- Benjamin Mays :shades:

[Shasha]

”Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before
how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way,
and that so many things that one goes worrying about
are of no importance whatsoever."
- Isak Denison :flying:

[Shasha]

”It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird:
It would be a jolly sight harder
For it to learn to fly while remaining an egg."
- C.S. Lewis {tweety}

[Shasha]

”We must live as we think,
otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived."
- Paul Bourget :thinking:

[Shasha]

”The world stands aside
to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."
– David Starr Jordan {king}

[Shasha]

”Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
– Samuel Beckett :rolling2:

[Shasha]

”Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
– Raymond Charles Barker :love8:

[Shasha]

”Choices are the hinges of destiny."
– Pythagoras :reading:

[Shasha]

”Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that.
Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that."
– Harold Kushner :weights:

[Shasha]

”It is the heart always that sees before the head can see."
– Thomas Carlyle :love7:

[Shasha]

”A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
– Mark Twain :bighug:

[Shasha]

”Courage is very important.
Like muscle, it is strengthened by use."
– Ruth Gordon :weights:

[Shasha]

”Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself,
To become what he potentially is."
– Erich Fromm :cloud9:

[Shasha]

”Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
– Katherine Mansfield :party1:

[Shasha]

”A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day."
– Albert Schweitzer :dance: :sleeping: :dance:

[Shasha]

”Consider the postage stamp:
its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing
until it gets there."
– Josh Billings :D

[Shasha]

”Character may be manifested in the great moments,
but it is made in the small ones."
– Phillips Brooks :clapping:

[Shasha]

”Nothing in life is to be feared,
It is only to be understood.
– Marie Curie :plane:

[Shasha]

”Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.
– Henry Van D*ke {tweety}

[Shasha]

”What is harder than rock, or softer than water?
Yet soft water hollows out hard rock.
PERSEVERE.
– Ovid {boing}

[Shasha]

”It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always;
this occupation ought to last as long as life.
– Queen Christina :artist:

[Shasha]

”Action is the antidote to despair.”
– Joan Baez {motorcycle}

[Shasha]

”No one can really pull you up very high
– you lose your grip on the rope.
But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.”
– Louis Brandeis :dance:

[Shasha]

”Most of us spend our lives as if we have another one in the bank.”
– Ben Irwin :disagree:

[Shasha]

”To accomplish great things, we must not only act,
but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France :rolling2:

[Shasha]

”To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
– Bertrand Russell :shocked:

[Shasha]

”If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery,
it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”
– Michelangelo :weights:

[Shasha]

”Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.”
– Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens :cloud9:

[Shasha]

”To accomplish great things,
We must not only act,
But also dream;
Not only plan,
But also believe.”
– Anatole France {wave}

[Shasha]

”Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together
yield themselves up when taken little by little.”
– Plutarch :cupid:

[Shasha]

”It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always;
this occupation ought to last as long as life.”
– Queen Christina {king}

[Shasha]

”There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great,
and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
– Orison Swett Marden :clapping3:

[Shasha]

”You will not find poetry anywhere
unless you bring some of it with you.”
– Joseph Joubert :reading:

[Shasha]

”Be a first rate version of yourself,
not a second rate version of someone else.”
– Judy Garland :jumping2:

[Shasha]

”Courage is very important.
Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”
– Ruth Gordon :weights:

[Shasha]

”This I conceive to be the chemical function of humour:
to change the character of our thought.”
– Lin Yutang :D

[Shasha]

”If no one ever took risks,
Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor.”
– Neil Simon :artist:

[Shasha]

”If you want a place in the sun,
you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.”
– Abigail Van Buren {scream}

[Shasha]

”Dreams come true.
Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
– John Updike :love7:

[Shasha]

”The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.”
– Mencius {wave}

[Shasha]

”Luck? I don’t know anything about luck.
I've never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do.
Luck to me is something else: hard work ~
And realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.”
– Lucille Ball :laundry:

[Shasha]

”Success is the ability to go from one failure to another
with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Sir Winston Churchill :weights:

[Shasha]

”What the caterpillar calls the end of the world
the master calls a butterfly.”
– Richard Bach :flower:

[Shasha]

”They always say time changes things,
But you actually have to change them yourself.”
– Andy Warhol :flying:

[Shasha]

”Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it.”
– T.S. Eliot :plane:

[Shasha]

”I do believe it is possible to create,
even without ever writing a word or painting a picture,
by simply molding ones inner life.
And that too is a deed.”
– Etty Hillesum :artist:

[Shasha]

”It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead.
The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
– Sir Winston Churchill :shades:

[Shasha]

”Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”
– Socrates :love7:

[Shasha]

”Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
but only saps today of its strength.”
– A J Cronin :sadeyes:

[Shasha]

”Discontent is the first step in progress.
No one knows what is in him till he tries,
and many would never try if they were not forced to.”
– Basil Maturin :reading:

[Shasha]

”Never let life’s hardships disturb you…
No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.”
– Nichiren Daishonin :innocent4:

[MrsPeel]

This isn't really on-message, but then again, it kind of is! I went to the True Colors concert last night, and it just struck me:


"ALWAYS REMEMBER: If you feel like playin', then play!"

-Cyndi Lauper

[Shasha]

”Action without study is fatal.
Study without action is futile.”
– Mary Ritter Beard :love8:

[Shasha]

”Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own
instead of someone else’s.”
– Billy Wilder :rolling2:

[Shasha]

”If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.”
– Lao Tzu {motorcycle}

[Shasha]

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark,
he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.”
– Saadi :noway:

[Shasha]

"Let your hook be always cast;
In the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
– Ovid :clapping:

[Shasha]

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars
or sailed an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
– Helen Keller :jumping2:

[Shasha]

"Let me listen to me and not to them.”
– Gertrude Stein {bubblegum}

[Shasha]

“Forget past mistakes.
Forget failures.
Forget everything
except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
– William C. Durant {motorcycle}

[Shasha]

“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 {boing}

[Shasha]

“The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
It provides human beings with a sense of destination
and the energy to get started.”
– Norman Cousins :hii:

[Shasha]

“If you want to be healthy in our society today,
you have got to do it on purpose.”
– Joyce Meyer :weights:

[Shasha]

”You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt :nerd:

[Shasha]

“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
– Wayne Gretsky :elmer:

[Shasha]

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.”
– Steve Jobs :jumping2:

[Shasha]

“Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”
– Carl Sandburg {elmo}

[Shasha]

“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them,
but bend them with gentleness and time.”
– St. Francis de Sales :party1:

[Shasha]

“A bad habit never disappears miraculously;
it’s an undo-it-yourself project.”
– Abigail Van Buren {cheerleader}

[Shasha]

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands,
but let it go, and you learn at once
how big and precious it is.”
– Aleksei Peshkov {tweety}

[Shasha]

“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually.
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”
– Rita Mae Brown {taz}

[Shasha]

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful,
to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate.
It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something,
to have made a difference that you lived at all.
– Leo Rosten {grouphug1}

[Shasha]

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.”
– Albert Einstein {bangdesk}

[Shasha]

“Ride on!
Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on!
Ride on over all obstacles and win the race!”
– Charles Dickens {boing}

[Shasha]

“None of us will ever accomplish anything
excellent or commanding except
when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson :peace:

[Shasha]

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”
– Carl Jung :flirt:

[Shasha]

“Imagination is the beginning of creation.
You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will.”
– George Bernard Shaw :artist:

[Shasha]

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success,
but I can give you a formula for failure:
Try to please everybody all the time.”
– Herbert Bayard Swope :cop:

[Shasha]

“Parties who want milk
should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field
in hope that the cow will back up to them.”
– Elbert Hubbard :cow:

[Shasha]

“Since no one is perfect, it follows that
all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection.
Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.”
– Lois McMaster Bujold :applause:

[Shasha]

“The Noah rule:
Predicting rain doesn’t count;
building arks does.”
– Warren Buffett :innocent1:

[Shasha]

“Hope is the feeling you have
that the feeling you have
isn’t permanent.”
– Jean Kerr :rolling2:

[Shasha]

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
– Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr :flower:

[Shasha]

“Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty,
believe in them and try to follow where they lead.”
– Louisa May Alcott :cloud9:

[Shasha]

“Opportunity is missed by most people because
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison :weights:

[Shasha]

“Facing it – always facing it – that’s the way to get through.
Face it!”
– Joseph Conrad :party1:

[Shasha]

“I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing.
The real question is, why did other people stop?”
– William Stafford :confused:

[Shasha]

“I am always doing that which I can not do,
in order that I may learn how to do it.”
– Pablo Picasso :artist:

[Shasha]

“You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
– Mahatma Gandhi :nerd:

[Shasha]

“Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.”
– Washington Irving :flirt:

[Shasha]

“The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished
a tiresome labor is immense.”
– Arnold Bennett :shades:

[Shasha]

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself,
in spite of being unacceptable.”
– Paul Tillich :jumping2:

[Shasha]

“It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.”
– Edward Henry Harriman :hypnotic:

[Shasha]

“It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin {motorcycle}

[Shasha]

“None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.”
– Bertolt Brecht :rolling2:

[SPDeRosa]

“None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.”
– Bertolt Brecht :rolling2:

That quote made me chuckle: My mom used to say something very similar :)


“God helps those who help themselves.”
– Shawn’s Mom :applause:

[Shasha]

“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something.
As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal:
There is a forward motion to yearning.”
– Gail Godwin :flying:

[Shasha]

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains it’s original dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr {boing}

[Shasha]

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on being perfect and
beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
– Anna Quindlen :wacky:

[Shasha]

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France :innocent3:

[Shasha]

“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.”
– Fay Weldon {boing}

[Shasha]

“Behold the turtle.
He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
– James Bryant Conant {cheerleader}

[Shasha]

“Always behave like a duck
– keep calm and unruffled on the surface
but paddle like the devil underneath.”
– Jacob Braude :innocent4:

[Shasha]

“The capacity for hope is the mot significant fact of life.
It provides human beings with the sense of destination
and the energy to get started.”
– Norman Cousins :jumping2:

[Shasha]

“Life begets life.
Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
– Sarah Bernhardt {bouncing}

[Shasha]

“When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
And that is my religion.”
– Abraham Lincoln :nerd:

[Shasha]

“Never look down to test the ground
before taking your next step;
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon
will find the right road.”
– Dag Hammarskjold :flying:

[Shasha]

“What we hop ever to do with ease
we may learn first to do with diligence.”
– Samuel Johnson :surf:

[Shasha]

“The moment of enlightenment is when a person’s dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.”
– Vic Braden :artist:

[Shasha]

“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
– Lady Bird Johnson {tweety}

[Shasha]

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
– Tuli Kupferberg {taz}

[Shasha]

“Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine.”
– Dane Rudhyar :artist:

[Shasha]

“There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from
facing head-on the hard truths and saying,
“We will never give upl. We will never capitulate.
It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”.”
– Jim Collins :D

[Shasha]

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
– Diane Ackerman :bighug:

[Shasha]

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
– Dorothea Brande :plane:

[Shasha]

“We make our fortunes and call them fate.”
– Benjamin Disraeli :love7:

[Shasha]

“Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
– Swami Sivananda Saraswati :party1:

[Shasha]

“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told:
‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’”
– Maya Angelou {friendhug}

[Shasha]

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
– Annie Dillard :innocent3:

[Shasha]

“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.”
– Jimmy Lyons :eek:

[Shasha]

“Once the “what” is decided, the “how” always follows.
We must not make the “how” an excuse for not facing and accepting the “what”.”
– Jimmy Lyons :flying:

[Shasha]

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.
…Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.”
– Tennessee Williams :flirt:
So pack your scale away! - Shasha

[Shasha]

“Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances.
Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it.”
– Wally “Famous” Amos :dance:

[Shasha]

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness
if greatness is expected from him.”
– John Steinbeck :innocent2:

[Shasha]

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
– Thomas A. Edison :weights:

[Shasha]

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
– Frank Herbert :sleeping:

[Shasha]

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
– Anna Freud :love6:

[Shasha]

“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles
than in growing with them.”
– Bernard Baruch :reading:

[Shasha]

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller {boing}

[Shasha]

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
– Peter Marshall {hammer}

[Shasha]

“I have learned, as a rule of thumb,
never to ask whether you can do something.
Say, instead, that you are doing it.
Then fasten your seat belt.
The most remarkable things follow.”
– Julia Cameron :plane:

[Shasha]

“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if
there were no valleys to traverse.”
– Helen Keller :surf:

[Shasha]

“Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.”
– Aldous Huxley {pot}

[Shasha]

“Do not be too timid and squeamish. All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make, the better.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson :innocent3:

[Shasha]

“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually.
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”
– Rita Mae Brown {elmo}

[Shasha]

“True silence is the rest of the mind;
it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body,
nourishment and refreshment.”
– William Penn :quiet:

[Shasha]

“To change one’s life:







1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions."
– William James {cheerleader}

[Shasha]

“We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.”
- William Ernest Hocking {boing}

[Shasha]

“I learn by going where I have to go.”
- Theodore Roethke :thinking:

[Shasha]

“Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.”
- Thomas J. Watson :love6:

[Shasha]

“One day in retrospect the years of struggle
will strike you as the most beautiful.”
- Sigmund Freud :thinking:

[Shasha]

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
- Samuel Bulter :innocent3:

[Shasha]

“Whenever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous decision.”
- Peter Drucker :weights2:

[Shasha]

“When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.”
- William Joseph Slim :jumping2:

[annielance]

I thought this was sooo funny. thanks for the laugh
annielance

[Shasha]

“Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.”
- Sir Thomas Browne :innocent3:

[Shasha]

“Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when
they lose direction and begin to bend.”
- Walter Savage Landor :hii:

[lfingers11]

hehe! I like that one!

[Shasha]

“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful.
If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
- Victoria Holt :nerd:

[Shasha]

“It may be those who do most, dream most.”
- Stephen Leacock :thinking:

[Shasha]

“Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is.
The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”
- Virginia Satir :flying:

[Shasha]

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
- Truman Capote :thinking:

[Shasha]

“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly,
but the bumblebee doesn’t know that
so it goes on flying anyway.”
- Mary Kay Ash {cheerleader}

[Shasha]

“Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”
- Anonymous :thinking:

[Shasha]

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.”
- Albert Pike :innocent2:

[Shasha]

“Everything you are against weakens you.
Everything you are for empowers you.” - Wayne Dyer :cop:

[Shasha]

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt :nerd:

[Shasha]

“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.”
- Pat Riley {noway}

[Shasha]

“When a man is sufficiently motivated,
discipline will take care of itself.”
- Sir Alexander Paterson :jumping2:

[Shasha]

“Once the ‘what’ is decided, the ‘how’ always follows.
We must not make the ‘how’ an excuse for
not facing and accepting the ‘what’.”
- Pearl S. Buck :rolling2:

[Shasha]

“A person who doubt himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”
- Alexandre Dumas {bangdesk}

[Shasha]

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:dance:

[heatherfeather]

"Never regret yesterday,
Life is in you today,
You make your own tomrrow"

[Shasha]

“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.”
- Julia Alvarez :love7:

[Shasha]

“It is good to act as if.
It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.”
- Charles Caleb Colton :innocent3:

[Shasha]

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear
– not absence of fear.”
- Mark Twain :weights:

[Shasha]

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.”
- John Ruskin {cheerleader}

[Shasha]

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself.
It is not in your environment,
it is not in luck or chance,
or the help of others;
it is in yourself alone.”
- Orison Swett Marden :bighug:

[Shasha]

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them;
but do not let them master you.
Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
- Helen Keller {pan}

[Shasha]

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”
- Morris West :party1:

[Shasha]

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.”
- Amelia Earhart :flirt:

[Shasha]

“When one’s expectations are reduced to zero,
one really appreciates everything one does have.”
- Stephen Hawking :hii:

[Shasha]

“Days are expensive.
When you spend a day you have one less day to spend.
So make sure you spend each one wisely.”
- Jim Rohn {wave}

[Shasha]

“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
- Aristotle :dance:

[Shasha]

“Calmness is the cradle of power.”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland :innocent3:

[Shasha]

“The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism
after you lose your innocence.”
- Bruce Springsteen {superman}

[Wilma]

Shasha is away until New Year and I will do my best to “fill-in” for her the best I can.
:praying:

[Shasha]

“We arrive at truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.”
- Blaise Pascal :love4:

[Shasha]

{hi} there Wilma

Thank you :bighug: Thank you :bighug: Thank you :bighug:

[lfingers11]

We will miss you Shasha but glad wilma is here!!
Have a great holiday!!

Pam

[Shasha]

{hi} there PAM

:love7: Thank you!!! :love7: :love7:

[Shasha]

“Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go.”
- T.S. Eliot :plane:

[Shasha]

“Don’t let life discourage you;
everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Anon :bighug:

[Shasha]

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
- John Muir :artist:

[Shasha]

“Character is simply habit long enough continued.”
- Plutarch :weights:

[Shasha]

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
- Alan Kay :party1:

[Shasha]

“If a little dreaming is dangerous,
the cure for this is not to dream less
but to dream more,
to dream all the time.”
- Marcel Proust :cloud9:

[Shasha]

“Life is what we make it.
Always has been, always will be.”
- Grandma Moses :love7:

[Shasha]

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated
can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with
the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
- Muhammad Ali :weights2:

[Shasha]

“The most important things to do in the world are
to get something to eat,
something to drink,
and somebody to love you.”
- Brendan Behan :love5:

[Shasha]

“A person who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.”
- Albert Einstein {pot}

[Shasha]

“There can be no happiness if
the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
- Freya Stark :hii:

[Shasha]

“Courage is the human virtue that counts most
– courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence.
That’s all any of us have.”
- Robert Frost :nerd:

[Shasha]

“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then
to hang a question mark on the things
you have long taken for granted.”
- Bertrand Russsell :confused:

[Shasha]

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
- E.E. Cummings :clapping:

[Shasha]

“Failure seldom stops you.
What stops you is the fear of failure.”
- Jack Lemmon :shocked:

[Shasha]

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success.
So give as much care to the end as to the beginning.”
- Lao Tzu :shades:

[Shasha]

“To realize one’s nature perfectly
– that is what each of us is here for.”
- Oscar Wilde :bighug:

[Shasha]

“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”
- George Sheehan :jumping2:

[Shasha]

“Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it.”
- Mary Kay Ash :embarrassment:

[Shasha]

“None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.”
- Bertolt Brecht :dance:

[Shasha]

“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp, but which,
if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne :flower:

[Shasha]

“My father use to say to me, ‘Whenever you get into a jam,
whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency…
become the calmest person in the room and
you’ll be able to figure your way out of it.’”
- Rudolph Giuliani :quiet:

[Shasha]

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.’”
- Helen Keller :crying:

[Shasha]

“There isn’t any virtue where there has never been any temptation.”
- Margaret Deland :innocent1:

[PhyllisRis]

that's right....not even in the Garden of Eden and look what happened to Adam & Eve!!!

[Shasha]

“Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way,
then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.”
- Anandibai Joshee :flower:

[Shasha]

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky :shocked:

[Shasha]

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches.
Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
- Louis LÁmour {pirates}

[Shasha]

“Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised?
Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others;
will not evil be mended?”
- Confucius {boing}