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2008:
Year of the Rat-Earth (begins February 7, 2008)
08
May, 2008
"The tendency in our spiritual life but
also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that
is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to
really love someone requires commitment, fidelity, and vulnerability." --
Rev. Brian
Kolodiejchuck
April, 2008
"Commitment is what transforms a promise
into reality." -- Abraham Lincoln (former American President)
March, 2008
"The best revenge is massive success." --
Frank Sinatra (American pop-swing music Grammy Award winner and Oscar
Award winning Actor)
February, 2008
"We are all born for love... it is the
principle existence and it's only end." -- Benjamin Disraeli
January, 2008
"An idea that is developed and put
into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." --
Hindu
Prince Guatama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism.
07 2007:
Year of the Pig-Fire (begins February 18, 2007)
December, 2007
"What I know for sure is that what
you give comes back to you." -- Oprah Winfrey,
O Magazine
(TV Host)
November, 2007
"How do you know if you are an
entrepreneur? It starts with realizing a passion and then making the
decision to chase it. You never give up even if everyone believes what you
are doing is wrong." --
Daryl
Snyder, CEO, Ojeez
(business networking)
October, 2007
"Magic is believing in yourself, if
you can do that, you can make anything happen." --
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (British
Playwright)
September, 2007
"Our power is not so much in us as
through us." --
Harry
Emerson Fosdick (American clergyman)
August,
2007
"Many of life's failures are people
who didn't realize how close they were to success when they gave up." --
Thomas Alva
Edison (master inventor)
July,
2007
"The whole of life is but a moment
of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it." --
Plutarch
June,
2007
"Life's more than breath and the
quick round of blood; it is a great spirit and busy heart." --
Philip
James Bailey (Festus)
May,
2007
"Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from
your body. Air is medicine." -- Lillian Russell
April,
2007
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we
did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." --
Anne Bradstreet
March,
2007
"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do
not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and
holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a
higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better
to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who
lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life
itself." -- R.J. Baughan
February,
2007
"If
a man does his best, what else is there?" --
George
Patton (Famous US Military General during WWII)
January,
2007
"A
gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own
person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and laborer. His
produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the
second, and the wages of the third." --
Adam Smith
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2006:
Year of the Dog -Fire (begins January 29, 2006) December,
2006
"You
get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." -- Harvey
S. Firestone November,
2006
"If
we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would truly astound
ourselves." -- Thomas Edison October,
2006
"From
what we get, we make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
-- Arthur Ashe September,
2006
"One
person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only
interests." -- John Stuart Mill August,
2006
"Those
who stand for nothing fall for anything." -- Alexander Hamilton
July,
2006
"In
the perception of the smallest is the secret of clear vision; in the
guarding of the weakest is the secret of all strength." -- Lao Tzu
June,
2006
"The
optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in
every opportunity." -- Sir Winston Churchill
05 2005:
Year of the Rooster
- Wood
(begins February 9, 2005) September,
2005
"He
who makes excuses accuses himself."
-- French Proverb
August,
2005
"In
research on college students, a comparison was made between students who
enjoyed their lives and studies and students who were least comfortable
with their environment. A major difference between the two groups was a
sense of underlying purpose in life, which almost twice as many of the
former group had."
-- Rahman and Khaleque 1996
July,
2005
"Love
cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-- Dr. Karl Menninger
June,
2005
"You
have to find something that you love enough... to take risks, jump
over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going
to be placed in front of you." -- George Lucas (Director of Star
Wars Trilogy) May,
2005
"I
like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end
of a telescope." -- Dr. Seuss April,
2005
"The
possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." -- Gloria
Anzaldua March,
2005
"Furthermore,
become aware that all structures, inventions and all things fashioned by
your hands first existed in your mind as thought-images. You cannot create
anything in this world until you have thought that something into
existence." -- Dr. Joseph Murphy February,
2005
"Love
is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then
you must forget the rules and play from your heart." -- Unknown
January,
2005
It
may be that those who do most, dream most." -- Stephen Leacock
04
2004:
Year of the Monkey
-WoodDecember,
2004
"If
you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path." --
Mary Webb November,
2004
"A
candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle." -- Unknown October,
2004
"Love
is a better teacher than duty." -- Albert Einstein September,
2004
"For
me, faith isn't necessarily about religion. It's about dreams--daring to
have them and to risk pursuing them." -- Jon Katz August,
2004
"If
you want to walk to a certain place, you must be pointed in the right
direction, then start walking toward it, one step at a time." --
Scott Andrews, Founder July,
2004
"I
will help weeping ones to smile, by smiling myself, even when it is
difficult." -- Paramahansa Yogananda June,
2004
"Do
not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time;
begin now. Do not think that you will act in a great way when you reach a
different environment; act in a great way where you are now. Do not think
that you will begin to act in a great way when you begin to deal with
great things; begin to deal in a great way with small things." --
Wallace D. Wattles May,
2004
"There
is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
-- Christopher Morley (American writer, 1890-1957) April,
2004
"Life
always bursts the boundaries of formulas." -- Antoine de Sainte Exupery March,
2004
"No
noble thing can be done without risks." -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne February,
2004
"Where
is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the
plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and
pillaging the very hills?" -- Kahlil Gibran January,
2004
"An
artist if he is truly an artist is only interested in one thing. To wake up the
minds of men." -- Marvin Gaye
03 2003:
Year of the Sheep - Water December,
2003
"There
is nothing permanent except change." -- Heraclitus
November,
2003
"Give
thanks for the unknown blessings already on their way." -- Native American
Saying
October,
2003
"Ideas
are really easy, but getting them to happen is the hard part." -- Bill
Joy, former Chief Strategist at Sun Microsystems September,
2003
"Nothing
happens unless first a dream." -- Carl Sandburg
August,
2003
"You
have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought
you could do.
There are no limitations in your mind as to what you cannot do. Don't
think you cannot.
Think you can." -- Darwin P. Kingsley July,
2003
"There
is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it." --
B. Quilliam June,
2003
"Just
like the falling rainbow, just like the stars in the sky, life should never feel
small." -- Vearncombe
May,
2003
"When
love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." -- John Ruskin
April,
2003
"We
must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power
to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to
hate our enemies. Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent
attitude." -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
March,
2003
"Mankind
must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." -- John F.
Kennedy
February,
2003
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
-- Laurence Peters
January,
2003
"It
is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -- James
Thurber
022002:
Year of the Horse - Water December,
2002
"Leadership
must be demonstrated, not announced." -- Fran Tarkenton
November,
2002
"Love
yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love
yourself to get anything done in this world." -- Lucille Ball
October,
2002
"Never
esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or
lose your self-respect." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
September,
2002
"The
mind always finds it easier to run, to fight, because then there is something to
do. If you say to the mind, 'Don't do anything,' that is the most
difficult thing." -- Osho
August,
2002
"Better
faithful than famous." -- Theodore Roosevelt
July,
2002
"It is our
choice to react with fear or act with courage. Instead of the succumbing to the fear and gloom that government, media, and
others are promoting, let's embrace action, love, fun, and happiness.
Let's build companies. Let's invest wisely. Let's spend for things that will
improve our lives. Let's help others and do good things. Let's fly. Let's
celebrate. Let's go out and have fun." -- Scott Andrews
June,
2002
"Simplicity
is the essence of happiness." -- Cedric Bledsoe
May,
2002
"If
you are waiting for the perfect time to jump from an airplane, you will never
jump. Just take a deep breath and go for it. It's the same with
following our aspirations. If we know our idea is right, then the time to
act upon that idea is now." -- Scott Andrews
April,
2002
"Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most
frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a
child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure
around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within
us. It is not just within some of us; it is in everyone. As we let
our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the
same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others." -- Nelson Mandela (1994 inaugural speech)
March,
2002
"A
person who is a master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a
pleasure." -- Oscar Wilde
February,
2002
"You
are a Master. You might as well get good at it." -- Peter McWilliams
(Portable Life 101)
January,
2002
"We
can't choose our time. We can only decide what to do with the time given
us." -- Gandalf (from Fellowship of the Ring movie)
(Gandalf
quote copyright © 2001, New Line Cinema. )
Thought
of the Month Archives
01 2001:
Year of the Snake - Metal
12/01
"Imagination
is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
11/01
"A
man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's." --
Jean Paul Richter
10/01
"It
is never too late to give up your prejudices." -- Henry David Thoreau
(Walden)
09/01
"Kisses
are the food of love." -- Daphne Rose Kingma
08/01
"It
is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
07/01
"If
you can dream it, you can do it." -- Walt Disney
06/01
"True
compassion is not based upon any expectation of a reward for the act done." --
Dalai Lama
05/01
"The
less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." -- Bruce Lee
04/01
"Do
the very best you can with what you've got." -- Duke Ellington
03/01
"Vision
is the art of seeing things invisible." -- Jonathan Swift
02/01
"Love
does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same
direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
01/01
"Success
is often preceded by failure. Most successful people fail often before they
succeed. Go for it even after you fail, and you will mostly likely eventually
succeed." -- Scott Andrews
00 2000:
Year of the Dragon - Metal
12/00
"All
things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of
the earth." -- Chief Seattle
11/00
"You
must do the thing you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
10/00
"The
machine has conquered man, man has become a machine, working but no longer
living
." -- M. Gandhi
09/00
"Nothing was
done unless there was a karakia [prayer]. It was just a whole way
of life in those days, to pray. -- Mihi Edwards, Maori Kuia (Elder)
08/00
"Often
when the heart is torn with sorrow, spiritually we wander like a traveler lost
in a deep wood. We grow frightened, lose all sense of direction, batter
ourselves against trees and rocks in our attempt to find a path. All the
while there is a path -- the path of FAITH -- that leads straight out of the
dense tangle of our difficulties into the open road we are seeking."
-- Helen Keller
07/00
"Abundance
comes from a state of the heart and spirit." -- S. Andrews
06/00
"Forgiveness is
the attribute of the strong." -- M. Gandhi
05/00
"The
best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is
today." - Chinese proverb
04/00
"Know
yourself." - Socrates
03/00
"If
you're feeling down, sad or blue go outside and look up. The fresh air,
sunlight and blue sky work better than medicine and you'll feel better in no
time." -- Scott Andrews
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