"Deep Thoughts For Today"
"Life is like a cracker with spice on it. You can always add that extra 'spice' but it's up to you whether you want to add it or not."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Lloyd Jones --- Australia
Life, at times, can be somewhat hectic and frustrating, but whenever I look over this quote, I have a better understanding for life. Don't hide who your are. Be yourself and always aim high.
"A girl's best friend is not expensive like diamonds, but in the end, can end up being more valuable."
--- Copyright © 2004 Elizabeth Garnett
"Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way."
--- Edna Ferber
"The biggest problem facing the world today is not people dying in the streets of Calcutta, and not inflation, but spiritual deprivation. . .this feeling of emptiness associated with feeling separate from God, and from all our sisters and brothers on planet earth. Loneliness is the leprosy of the West."
--- Mother Teresa --- Submitted by Giselle H., Age 17 --- Illinois
"Leadership is often measured by meetings, managing, and memos. Productive leadership is measured by achieving strategic goals, benchmarks, and visible results."
--- Copyright © 2004 Reed Markham, Ph.D
"Leaders make announcements not excuses."
--- W. Leitzen --- Submitted by E. Mullen --- Rhode Island
"I am my hardest critic. The biggest challenges are the ones that are set upon me and not those from the external environment. I will definitely be resilient in the face of adversity. No problem will be too big for me to tackle, for I believe in myself."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Karen Leow --- Singapore
Well, I think the reason why one is not able to move forward is because he, himself is his biggest enemy whom he needs to conquer first.
"What good is it, for a man to gain the world, and yet lose his own soul in the process?.... I wonder."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Richard Mudzingwa --- Zimbabwe
This quote is the reason why I wake up in the morning. I tell myself that I shouldn't be greedy and try to consume everything I see. Why should I try to have every thing all at once, and never be happy? But instead, take every day one step at a time.
"Informed consent is one thing, understanding that information is completely another."
--- Copyright © 2003 Patti Blomme
I choose to send this quote because it is my favorite of all my personal quotes. It says so much about how people make choices. They think they are informed, but rarely do they understand what they have been informed about.
"Search your past, to understand the present and improve the future."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by R. Steele --- California
"Choose to look at the world with your heart and not your eyes; and your eyes will begin to see a completely different world."
--- Copyright © 1995 Angula R. Fuhr (Oiler)
"Regret is futile because it is paralysis without process."
--- Copyright © 2004 Ed Boyden
"Don't conform to this world; be the difference. Turn it upside down like a pineapple cake, then it will taste better."
--- Copyright © 2004 Ashley Dunaway
"I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift."
--- Septima Poinsette Clark
"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
--- Alan Marshall Beck
"Although it may never be achieved, strive for perfection."
--- Susan Powers --- Submitted by Bryan P., Age 17 --- North Carolina, United States
It hit me like a ton of bricks. I live by this quote now.
"Trust everybody; just don't trust the devil in them."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Moses Dlamini --- Manzini, Swaziland
In it, you find that people should be trusted. It's just when the devil gets to use them that we should not trust them.
"Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most."
--- George R. Kirkpatrick
"No barrier can prevent those who strive from achieving their goals."
--- Copyright © 2000 Rich Lewis
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
--- Buddha
"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success."
--- Thomas J. Watson