To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done--this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

--Thomas Dekker

-- (cin@cin.cin), December 27, 2001

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"Things are only impossible, until they're not."

--Picard

-- helen (boring@you.willfully), December 27, 2001.

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

--Charles Dickens

-- Pammy (pamela_sue57@hotmail.com), December 27, 2001.

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.

-- Benjamin Franklin

-- (cin@cin.cin), December 28, 2001.

Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, carress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach

-- (cin@cin.cin), December 29, 2001.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

-- Will Rogers

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), December 30, 2001.

"I coulda had class Charley, I coulda been a contendah"

--Terry Malloy (Malon Brando), On the Waterfront, 1954

-- (lars@indy.net), December 30, 2001.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. William Penn

-- (cin@cin.cin), January 02, 2002.

anonymous email:

"I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges."

    

-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), January 02, 2002.

Things will be better tomorrow, they can't get much worse.

Dad

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), January 02, 2002.

"Nice guys finish last and bring you breakfast in bed."

(Bumper sticker)

-- Pammy (pamela_sue57@hotmail.com), January 02, 2002.

(I had to read that one three times, Pammy!)

-- helen :) (duh@duh.duh), January 02, 2002.

J

-- Pammy (pamela_sue57@hotmail.com), January 02, 2002.

"Booga, booga, booga"

--comedian David Steinberg (from the "Crazy Psychiatrist" bit)

-- (lars@indy.net), January 04, 2002.

This one saved my life, literally:

You've got two choices...sink or swim.

-- doing the backstroke (cin@cin.cin), January 04, 2002.

glub

-- (nemesis@awol.com), January 04, 2002.

"I'm not a psychologist. I don't want to make you comfortable with yourself. I want you to be better."

--a priest

-- helen (a@moment.in.time), January 04, 2002.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. --E E Cummings

-- Pammy (pamela_sue57@hotmail.com), January 05, 2002.

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference."

--Richard Dawkins

not wanting to be a nihilist, Dawkins sums up why I choose faith

-- (lars@indy.net), January 05, 2002.

Wasn't Richard Dawkins the guy who hosted Family Fued. No wonder he had such learned opinions on nihilism.

-- Jack Booted Thug (governmentconspiracy@NWO.com), January 05, 2002.

Richard Dawson. Or maybe he was James Coburn.

-- helen (somebody@check.my.math.too), January 05, 2002.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.

--An American proverb

-- (cin@cin.cin), January 21, 2002.

Memes don't exist. Tell your friends.

-- Debbie (dbspence@pobox.com), February 22, 2002.