Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Go Wherever You Wanted To Go
The trip you can enjoy today because of the person you are may be a frustratingly unhappy one tomorrow because of the person you have become in the meantime. Go wherever you have always wanted to go. Go as soon as you can, for as far as you can, for as long as you can.
Bob and Patti Carpenter
Bob and Patti Carpenter
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Sign of Celebration
Monday, June 22, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Not Good Company
Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us, I fear worry that, if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.
James O. Freedman
James O. Freedman
Monday, June 15, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Philippine Independence
I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans... Because, however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.
President Manuel L. Quezon
President Manuel L. Quezon
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Always at Your Side
Now you will fell no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you. Go now to your dwelling, to enter into the days of your life together, and may your days be good and long upon the earth.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
What is Your Heaven?
Heaven comes in may shapes and sizes. The heaven of the Eskimos, they say, is hot; The Arabs' is cool, with dancing girls. But give me a blue mountain lake at the end of a long climb. Frame it with timber untouched by the ax. Fill it with brook trout, deep-keeled, orange bellied, ready to the fly. Let the sun be warm after swimming and let the nights be cold under the stars. Let the first ray of morning light strike the snowfields of the western peaks; let the long clear note of the varied thrush announce the day.
Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks
Friday, June 5, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Creative Achievements of Mind and Spirit
For 9000 years society has depended upon individuals for those creative achievements of mind and spirit that have guided it along the path of civilization.
The spark from heaven falls. Who picks it up? The crowd? Never. The individual? always. It is he and he alone, as artist, inventor, explorer, scholar, scientist spiritual leader or statesman, who stands nearest to the source of life and transmits its essence to his fellowmen.
Wisdom and virtue cannot be forced from a crowd as eggs from chicken under electrical lights. There is no such thing as general intelligence. There is only individual intelligence communicating itself to other individual intelligences. And there is no such thing as public morality. There is only a composite of private morality.
The spark from heaven falls. Who picks it up? The crowd? Never. The individual? always. It is he and he alone, as artist, inventor, explorer, scholar, scientist spiritual leader or statesman, who stands nearest to the source of life and transmits its essence to his fellowmen.
Wisdom and virtue cannot be forced from a crowd as eggs from chicken under electrical lights. There is no such thing as general intelligence. There is only individual intelligence communicating itself to other individual intelligences. And there is no such thing as public morality. There is only a composite of private morality.
A. Whitney Griswold
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