On Learning

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can -- there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

—Sarah Caldwell

Nice guys

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
- Addison Walker

Finding the Time

"Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways.
Where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses."
Arlen Price

Happiness

"Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you
have, it depends upon what you think."
-Dale Carnegie

Memories

God has given us memories that we may have roses in December.
J. M. Barrie

Kindness

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault

Quotations

Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life

Worry

"....Do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble
of it's own."
Matthew 6:34(NIV)

A good motto

"Be kinder than necessary,

for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."

(Paraphrased from J.M. Barries' The Little White Bird: Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?)

Thoughts on the New Year

"The births of all things are weak and tender, and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings." ---Montaigne

Conclusions...

"A conclusion is what you've come to when you reach the point where you can't think anymore."

Unknown

Memory...

"To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends."  --Milan Kundera

Children...

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
(Charles Dickens)

I have seen the 2nd half of this quote before, but not the beginning. I did not know it was Dickens.