February 2024

1. Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: the potential for greatness lives within each of us. – Wilma Rudolph
2. Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. – Robert W. Service
3. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
4. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time. – Anonymous

 

January 2024

1. Our language has wisely sensed there are two sides of man’s being alone.  It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich
2. Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. – Roy T. Bennett
3. You can’t stay mad at someone who makes you laugh. – Jay Leno
4. This goes out to whoever invented the zero. Thanks for nothing. – Anonymous

 

December 2023

1. Do all fairy tales begin with ‘Once upon a time?’ No, many of them begin with ‘If I am elected, I promise . . .’ – Anonymous
2. I’ve learned… That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney
3. Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence win championships. – Michael Jordan
4. Then there was the time Fruit of the Loom took Hanes to court… it was a brief case. – Anonymous

 

November 2023

1. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.  – Dr. Maya Angelou
2. We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.  – Paula Danziger
3. Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.  – Ann Landers
4. Why should you never date an apostrophe? They’re too possessive.  – Anonymous

 

October 2023

1. I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:  It vexes me to choose another guide.  – Emily Bronte
2. If you’re buying a watch from Amazon, be warned. I learned the hard way that if it says you can swim with it, this only applies if you can already swim without it.  – Anonymous
3. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.  – George Bernard Shaw
4. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.  – Mark Twain

 

September 2023

1. It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.  – H.G. Wells
2. Nothing gives one person so great advantage over another, as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.  – Thomas Jefferson
3. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.  – Jean Kerr
4. If you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stock. Now that’s humerus.  – Anonymous

 

July 2023

1. A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.  – Dorothea Brande, Author
2. I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.  – Maya Angelou
3. May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.  – Nelson Mandela
4. My son was chewing on electric cords, so I had to ground him. It’s OK, though. He’s doing better and conducting himself properly.  – Anonymous

 

May 2023

1. Be curious; not judgmental.  – Walt Whitman
2. A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.  – Plato
3. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.  – Havelock Ellis
4. In Britain it’s called a lift but Americans call it an elevator. I guess we were just raised differently.  – Anonymous

 

April 2023

1. If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present… gratefully.  – Dr. Maya Angelou
2. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.  – Les Brown
3. Trust leaves on horseback and returns on foot.  – Anonymous
4. I pick up favorite quotations, and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.  – Robert Burns

 

February 2023

1. We suffer more in imagination than in reality.  – Seneca
2. We need never be ashamed of our tears.  – Charles Dickens
3. Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.   – Chuang Tzu
4.   The first french fries were not cooked in France. They were cooked in Greece.  – Anonymous

 

January 2023

1. My question is: Is this our future? Is anger and divisiveness our future? Or can we be empowered and empower others while simultaneously putting empathy and civility into the dominant conversation.  That’s the discussion we should be having.  – Jake Gyllenhaal
2. Not everything needs to be said.  – Anonymous
3. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  – Winston Churchill
4. Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven’t met yet.  – Anonymous

 

November 2022

1. It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the young to have the courage of their confusions.  – John Ciardi
2. It is a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.  – Aldous Huxley
3. Friendship?  Yes, please.  – Charles Dickens
4. There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator. Only a fraction of people will find this funny.  – Anonymous

 

October 2022

1. None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other, we’re safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.  – David Guterson
2. We’re all just walking each other home.  – Anonymous
3. To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.  – e. e. cummings
4. I’ve reached the age where ‘happy hour’ is a nap.  – Anonymous