Moments...

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take - but by the moments
that take our breath away." Hilary Cooper

Habits...

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. Somerset Maugham

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. Chinese Proverb

I am your constant companion, I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do might just as well turn over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly. I am easily managed - you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons, I will do it automatically. I am the servant of all great people; and alas, of all failures as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures. I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a human. You may run me for a profit or run me for ruin - it makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with me, And I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me, and I will destroy you. WHO AM I? I AM HABIT.


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Greek Philosopher

Serenity...

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
(Reinhold Niebuhr)

The Coin...

Some of my favorite bits of poetry:

THE COIN

Into my heart's treasury
I slipped a coin
That time cannot take
Nor a thief purloin, --
Oh better than the minting
Of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory
Of a lovely thing.


Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)