Lorie's World

On Learning

2009-01-23T12:19:00.001-06:00

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

2009-01-23T11:59:00.000-06:00

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

Finding the Time

2008-06-20T09:50:00.000-05:00

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

Happiness

2007-08-13T21:48:00.000-05:00

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

Memories

2007-04-10T12:23:00.000-05:00

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

Kindness

2007-04-10T11:29:00.000-05:00

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

2007-04-10T11:27:00.000-05:00

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

2007-04-10T11:09:00.000-05:00

"....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

2007-04-10T11:00:00.000-05:00

"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

2006-12-22T23:01:00.000-06:00

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

Conclusions...

2006-08-26T12:52:00.000-05:00

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

Memory...

2006-07-26T11:43:00.000-05:00

"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...

2006-07-26T11:38:00.000-05:00

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.

Back to School Time...

2006-07-15T10:54:00.001-05:00

“Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire"

William Butler Yeats

Moments...

2006-06-28T08:35:00.000-05:00

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

Habits...

2006-06-27T00:34:00.000-05:00

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...

2006-06-19T22:56:00.000-05:00

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...

2006-06-10T23:18:00.000-05:00

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)

2005-04-26T23:01:00.000-05:00

Granny knitted this very fashionable poncho for Elizabeth, and some for Kate and Elizabeth, too. They were all stylin' this Spring!

2005-04-26T22:59:00.000-05:00

Four cuties at Purina Farms

2005-04-26T22:57:00.000-05:00

Natalie at Purina Farms

2005-04-26T22:55:00.000-05:00

2005-04-26T22:44:00.000-05:00

Papa and Grandma are home from sunny, sunny Florida.

2005-04-26T22:19:00.000-05:00

Uncle Bob and Natalie reading and relaxing.

My first post

2005-04-26T22:08:00.000-05:00

Here it is, my first Blog!!!!