Ansel Adams Quote

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter - Ansel Adams

Thanks For This Most Amazing Day!

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. - e.e. cummings

Flattery

What flatterers say, try to make true. - German Proverb

Mothers

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. - Tenneva Jordan

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter De Vries

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. - Robert Brault

Thoughts on Property

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.  ~Ayn Rand

The things you own end up owning you.  It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.  ~From the movie Fight Club

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.  ~Abraham Lincoln
 

Envy

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. - Harold Coffin

Beauty by John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

Good Manners

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.  If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. - Emily Post

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer


Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. - Bill Kelly

The Beauty of Silence

“Be still, and know that I am God."  - Psalm 46:10

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. - William Penn

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. - Walter Bagehot

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.  ~Samuel Johnson

Silence is the mother of truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

We Judge...

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. - Ian Percy

More Marriages Might Survive If.....

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. - Doug Larson

Healthy Lifestyle

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow."  Tomorrow is disease. - Terri Guillemets

Home Is.....

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. - Christian Morgenstern

Thrift!

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. - Calvin Coolidge

He who does not economize will have to agonize. - Confucius

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. - Seneca

Trust

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare


You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. - Frank Crane