quotes

GET IN THE GAME!

In a recent interview with Ted Koppel:

“Why would anyone want to be President of the United States?” Koppel asked incredulously.

Clinton didn’t pause. “The one option in life that is almost always the wrong option,” he said “is walking away and choosing not to be in the game.”

6 Things Happy People Never Do

Happy people do a lot of things. They spend time expressing gratitude, cultivating optimism, practicing kindness, nurturing loving relationships, committing to meaningful goals, savoring life’s little pleasures, and so on and so forth.

But they NEVER…

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Under every full moon

I recall a lagoon

Where a mandolin played,

And memories stir

Of the dreamers we were

And the plans that we made.”

— Robert Brault

Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Benjam Franklin, 1784

The idea of troops attacking from the sky can be said to be an early American idea, stretching all the way back to Benjamin Franklin while he was ambassador to France.

25 Things You Need to Stop Wasting Time On

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
―Benjamin Franklin

MORE»>

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve … is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It’s true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.

Francis Crick…On the discovery of DNA by him and James Watson

15 Powerful Beliefs that Will Free You from Negativity

It isn’t easy to remain positive when negativity surrounds you, but remember that you have full control over what you choose to believe. You can effectively defend yourself against all kinds of negativity by adopting simple, yet powerful, beliefs that support a positive outlook in the face of seemingly negative circumstances.

MORE…

	stayblogged on Tie A Yellow Ribbon Is #1
	Rick on Picture This
	jncthedc on Picture This
	Elysian Waters on The Road I Never Chose
	Rick on Ample Make This Bed