The Creator did not design us to beat ourselves up when we make mistakes. Mistakes are our friends. It is from mistakes that we learn. The more mistakes we learn from, the faster we gain wisdom. The faster we gain wisdom, the more we love. The more we love, the fewer our mistakes. Therefore, mistakes help us to learn love. God is love. Mistakes are sacred and help us learn about God's will for ourselves.

~ Don Coyhis, MOHAWK

For those who believe, no proof is necessary.

For those who do not believe, no proof is possible.

John & Lyn St Clair-Thomas - Eyes of the beholder

I believe in alternate universes beause at least there's a possibility that I'm rich someplace else.

John R., aka GreenMonk, 8/26/06

"Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.

Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.-Winston Churchill

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."-William Tecumseh Sherman

"It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom but had fallen into it"-Soren Kierkegaard

" You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
Mahatma Gandhi

"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe"-George Washington

"Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil.

Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation."-John Vanbrugh

"Evil is a hill; everyone gets his own and speaks about someone else's"-African Proverb

"We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free"-Cicero

"What you must dare is to be yourself."

~ Dag Hammarskjold

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others"

Robert Louis Stevenson

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952


Gentle Blessings,
LyttleWyng

"Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is sweet to those who have not experienced it)"-Erasmus

"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather a boy learned in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him."-G.K. Chesterton

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."-Albert Einstein

� ...what I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can�t do and how there�s not enough time in which to do it, isn�t that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that�s what I get. You see, I recognize that it�s not what happens to you; it�s what you do about it.�

~ W. Mitchell

"I can govern the United States or I can govern my daughter Alice, but I can't do both."-Theodore Roosevelt

"Love your enemies. It makes them so damn mad"-P.D. East

"Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition."-Cornel West

"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age"-Sainte-Beuve

You are never a loser until you quit trying...

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself

both are words of wisdom from Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever you are, be a good one... Abraham Lincoln :spam2: