Todays question Tuesday 3-18-08 (how many, popular, people, words)

[sue64]

Round & round, what comes around goes around....Ratt

[tet tea]

"Life is like a box of chocolates" ... just wish I could stop eating the damn things!

"Stupid is as stupid does" ... my favorite!

Actually when I was a kid a was constantly told to "turn the other cheek." That has stuck with me since I was bullied no end and kept turning the other cheek, until one day I snapped and let the bully have it and then some! Now I never turn the other cheek, I try and face everything head on and stand up for myself.

All books inspire me.

[crazyworld]

I actually have two....These were given to me as gifts unfortunately, I do not who the authors are:

Because I work with Children it was given as a gift:

A Hundred Years rom Now
It will not matter how much money you had, the sort of house you lived in or the kind of car you drove.
But the world may be differnt because you were important in the life of a Child.


The second was given to me after my brother died:

Some people come into our lives and quickly go....Some stay for a while...leaving footprints on our hearts....and we are never the same!

[Magnum Mike]

When I was 19 (in 1976) my father was telling me about the years it can take to build something good with education, career and hard work, but everything can be destroyed in a quick instance if we're not careful, and as an example, he used a skyscraper, and the years it can take to put up such a building, but all that can be destroyed in a relative instant, if something wasn't done right, because it takes much less effort to destroy something than to build it.

I definitely thought about that after the tragic events of September 11th, 2001.

[AksarbeN]

From the top down, these are a few of the quotes that I’ve enjoyed over the years.

"See, in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." (Bush in Greece, N.Y., May 24, town hall meeting

“I’m not anti-Bush; I’m anti-Bush behavior; in other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.” ...Viggo Mortensen

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." Albert Einstein

"In the end, we will remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends."
--- Martin Luther King, Jr. –

And my last quote is from Dr. Phil and I love it when he says; “So how’s that working for you?”

[VillageLife]

I love thee the way you are LOL!

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for says the Lord, they are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope".
God has spoken to me so many times through this verse and especially since I was laid off in 2004. It encourages me to read this.

[AksarbeN]

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed.

“The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

— President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953

[Tek_Freek]

Sayings don't inspire me.


Actions do.


Talk is cheap and is spent easily. What you actually do is what I use to judge you.

[Blueberry]

WHATEVER!

"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." (Holy Bible, Philippians 4:8)

Life is far to short and valuable to waste energy and peace of mind dwelling on the negatives in life. While acknowledging and dealing with the ugly realities of life, I prefer to set my mind on uplifting things.