The Crew's Motivational Corner
Read the Morning Crew's daily motivation messages from the Motivational Corner here...
May 4 2010
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite! (Grant)
No-one in this world has ever been like you with your mixture of gifts and abilities. It's a shame to waste that mix by following another's footsteps! (NHG)
I have no special talents - I am only passionately curious! (Polly)
May 3 2010
There's nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. (Grant)
Happiness is not about having or not having problems - everyone has problems, but not everyone is unhappy! (NHG)
History, despite it's wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again! (Polly)
April 30 2010
Be the change that you want to see in the world. (Grant)
There is never really a right time to do a difficult thing - best to man up and do it now. (NHG)
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! (Polly)
April 29 2010
I will come again and conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow - but as a human, I can. (NHG)
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. (Polly)
April 28 2010
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting. (Grant)
Be as bold as the first man or woman to eat an oyster. (NHG)
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened - but no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Polly)
April 27 2010
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire yourself, deserves your love and affection. (Grant)
Strength evolves from struggles - the more we struggle, the stronger we grow. (NHG)
It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another & not say anything & still feel content. The young, brash & impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox. (Polly)
April 26 2010
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared! (Grant)
Don't go the way life takes you, take life the way you go. (NHG)
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. (Polly)
April 23 2010
Believe notjhing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I've said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Grant)
How intensely you want something and the likelihood you'll get it are directly proportional to the effort you put into achieving it. (NHG)
Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever: faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love. (Polly)
April 22 2010
It is well that war is so terrible; we should grow too fond of it. (Grant)
The meaning of life is to find your gift - the purpose of your life is to share it with the world. (NHG)
Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you. (Polly)
April 21 2010
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful! (Grant)
The real challenge of leaders is not to lead, but to drive effectively. (NHG)
Two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe... (Polly)
April 20 2010
In a controversy the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth, and begun striving for ourselves. (Grant)
If you feel the world has turned against you, don't worry. Rise with your head up high and conquer the world. (NHG)
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. (Polly)
April 19 2010
A dog is not considered a good dog because he's a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. (Grant)
Success is hidden under the rock of hard work. (NHG)
The best thing you can do for someone is just to exist - to be there when they realise that they need you right then. (Polly)
April 1 2010
Old friends pass away, new friends appear - it's just like the days. An old day passes, a new one arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful. A meaningful friend, or a meaningful day. (Grant)
Life's not about expecting, hoping, and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. (NHG)
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can make a fool of yourself anytime! (Polly)
March 31 2010
If you can't do great things, do small things with great love! (Grant)
Your future starts when you wake up every morning. (NHG)
Don't cry for a man who's left you, because the next one may fall for your smile! (Polly)
March 30 2010
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. (Grant)
The only way to get to a better tomorrow is to nail the disasters of today. (NHG)
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three res. Respect for self, Respect for others, and Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
(Polly)
March 26 2010
What the mother sings in the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. (Grant)
Let us be grateful to the people that make us happy - they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (NHG)
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot ever be trusted with important matters. (Polly)
March 25 2010
Happy is the man who avoids descension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance. (Grant)
The best among you are those who are best to their wives. (Grant)
God gives us dreams a size too big so we can grow into them. (NHG)
Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage! (Polly)
March 24 2010
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it's too low and we reach it. (Grant)
Laugh at yourself and at life - laughter is the miracle drug! Never take yourself too seriously. (NHG)
If you love someone tell them! Hearts are often broken by words left unspoken. (Polly)
March 23 2010
Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional. (Grant)
Remember making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right. (NHG)
Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Noah's Ark
One - Don't miss the boat.
Two - Remember that we are all in the same boat.
Three - Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
Four - Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
Five - Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
Six - Build your future on high ground.
Seven - For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
Eight - Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
Nine - When you're stressed, float a while.
Ten - Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
Eleven - No matter the storm, when you have faith, there's always a rainbow waiting.
(Polly)
March 22 2010
Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else - you're the one that's gonna get burnt! (Grant)
Don't flow like a wave which returns back in the same direction after a hitting a rock - try to become a rock which can change the direction of the wind. (NHG)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. (Polly)
March 19 2010
If you're gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty. (Grant)
People don't drown by falling in water - they drown by staying there. (NHG)
Adults are just obsolete children, and to hell with them. (Polly)
March 18 2010
Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those be well tried before you give them your confidence. (Grant)
Believing in a solution paves the way to solution. (NHG)
The only real voyage of discovery not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Polly)
March 17 2010
Don't aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. (Grant)
End your day privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying "I Love You". Do this for 30 days and watch how much you transform. (NHG)
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. (Polly)
March 15 2010
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. (Grant)
Right time right place? Rubbish to that! Wherever you are is always the right place! (NHG)
We come to love not by finding a perfect person - but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly! (Polly)
March 9 2010
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. (Grant)
You only live once - but if you work it right once is enough! (NHG)
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. (Polly)
March 8 2010
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Grant)
Don't start today until you've finished yesterday. (NHG)
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. (Polly)
March 5 2010
Be the kind of the man that when your feet hit the floor each morning the Devil says "Oh crap - he's up." (Grant)
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. (NHG)
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. (Polly)
March 4 2010
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength or knowledge, but a lack of will. (Grant)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, rather than the things you did do. (NHG)
The saddest thing I can imagine is ever getting used to luxury. (Polly)
March 3 2010
Promise me you will always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (Grant)
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. (NHG)
A life with love with have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. (Polly)
March 2 2010
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. (Grant)
Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful. (NHG)
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs! (Polly)
March 1 2010
To the unbeliever, death is the end. To the believer, the beginning. (Grant)
There is no future in the past, so let's make the future and live the present. (NHG)
Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So when you are lonely, remember it's true, somebody, somewhere, is thinking of you. (Polly)
February 26 2010
So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success - if I persist long enough, I will win! (Grant)
Water your dream with motivation and it will grow into reality. (NHG)
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life you will have been all of these. (Polly)
February 25 2010
You fail at horseback riding as soon as you refuse to get up. Dust yourself off, and remount one more time. (Grant)
You can't get your yesterdays back, so live them to their fullest and don't fill them with choices you will regret for all your tomorrows. (NHG)
Marriage is three parts love, and seven parts forgiveness of sins. (Polly)
February 24 2010
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory. To be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignorable defeat. (Grant)
You're born unknown - so live each day to make that change and die a legend. (NHG)
A friend can tell you things you don't wanna tell yourself. (Polly)
February 23 2010
Govern your life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see one and read the other. (Grant)
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. (NHG)
Beware of false knowledge - it's more dangerous than ignorance. (Polly)
February 22 2010
To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed. (Grant)
Closing a chapter in your book of life states that you have grown in certain areas of your life. It shows you that you are ready for some new challenges & new growth. You may experience some pain and memories, but the pain and memories have now turned into wisdom. So now, apply your new growth, new challenges, and wisdom to another chapter of your life and create new memories. (NHG)
Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down. (Polly)
February 19 2010
Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families, working from dawn till dusk just to feed their young. There is no pressure in football. (Grant)
Preparation ripens the fruit of possibility. (NHG)
Never let a win get to your head or a loss get to your heart. (Polly)
February 18 2010
The secret of happiness you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. (Grant)
Dream, but don't sleep. (NHG)
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. (Polly)
February 17 2010
If the problem has a solution, worrying is pointless - in the end the problem will be solved! If the problem has no solution, there's no reason to worry, as it can't be solved! (Grant)
There are over 6 billion people in the world - that's over 6 billion ways to be beautiful. (NHG)
Life's problems wouldn't be called hurdles if there wasn't a way to get over them! (Polly)
February 16 2010
To the uneducated, an A is just 3 sticks! (Grant)
The dream for yesterday is the hope for today and reality for tomorrow. (NHG)
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are only tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Polly)
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything... (Polly)
February 15 2010
A wise man never puts away childish things. (Grant)
You don't control who comes into your life, but you can control who stays. (NHG)
Beware the lollipop of mediocrity - lick it once and you'll suck forever! (Polly)
February 12 2010
Brave hearts do not back down. (Grant)
If you miss an opportunity, don't close your eyes with tears. Keep your vision clear so you will not miss the next one! (NHG)
If you make a mistake, and do not correct it - this is called a mistake. (Polly)
February 11 2010
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key. (Grant)
If we fight, we may not always win, but if we don't fight, we will surely lose. (NHG)
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so! There's a support group for that - it's called everybody and we meet at the bar. (Polly)
February 10 2010
The two immutable rules for good relationships are...
Rule One - think before you speak
Rule Two - when you forget or ignore rule one, apologise quickly! (Grant)
An immature man wishes to die for a cause, while a mature man wishes to live humbly for one. (NHG)
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. (Polly)
February 9 2010
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. (Grant)
To laugh at yourself is to love yourself. (NHG)
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, the world. (Polly)
February 8 2010
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. (Grant)
We are like pencils - our true worth lies within us and we are expected to leave a mark. (NHG)
Progress isn't made by early risers - it's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. (Polly)
February 5 2010
Those who cannot bravely face danger are slaves of their attackers. (Grant)
The great thing about your destiny is it's your path in life. You get to pave it with your memories, and plan it with your dreams. (NHG)
There's a fine line between support and stalking - and let's all stay on the right side of that line! (Polly)
February 4 2010
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. (Grant)
Love is giving all of yourself, everything, with no hope or expectation of return. (NHG)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Polly)
February 3 2010
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. (Grant)
Only borrow other's troubles. Today you will have plenty of your own to keep. (NHG)
Make a promise to give yourself as much as you give of yourself. Remember - never put yourself on sale. (Polly)
February 2 2010
The fool is known by his speech, and the wise man by his silence. (Grant)
Every doubt you maintain requires your active participation and energy - choose to no longer participate in keeping those doubts alive! (NHG)
Adults are just obselete children and to hell with them! (Polly)
February 1 2010
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader my friend. (Grant)
Faith makes life possible, Hope makes life workable, but Love makes life beautiful. (NHG)
Finish every day and be done with it. Some blunders and some absurdities crept in - forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day! You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbred with your old nonsense! (Polly)
January 29 2010
So many Gods. So many creeds. So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Grant)
The way you see me today is not going to be the way you see me tomorrow, because there is a victory to be won inbetween. (NHG)
If you never did, you should! These things are fun and fun is good. (Polly)
January 28 2010
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. (Grant)
Bring out the best in everyone, and the best comes back to you. (NHG)
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (Polly)
January 27 2010
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now! (Grant)
Never tear down a fence until you know why it was raised. (NHG)
You will regret many things in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair. (Polly)
January 26 2010
Obstacles don't have to stop you! If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up Figure out how to climb it, how to go through it, or work around it. (Grant)
Inhale positivity, and you will exhale kindness. (NHG)
Don't become your worst critic. Stop reading between the lines of things and be who you were meant to be. (Polly)
January 25 2010
If you're going through hell, keep going. (Grant)
Success does not mean the absence of failure - it means winning the war, not every battle. (NHG)
When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning. (Polly)
January 22 2010
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sails. (Grant)
Once you've climbed a mountain, the hills are easy. (NHG)
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no-one's definition of your life. Define yourself. (Polly)
January 21 2010
Life is brief, and then you die, so it had better be damn good! (Grant)
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. (NHG)
Immature love says I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. (Polly)
January 20 2010
Don't let life discourage you. Everyone who got where he is, had to begin where he was. (Grant)
Don't wait for the world leaders to change your world. It has been your responsibility since the minute you were born. (NHG)
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other to exist. (Polly)
January 19 2010
To become a champion, fight one more round. (Grant)
We work to make a living, and at times end up living to work. That's where we must stop, take stock, and change our priorities. (NHG)
Memories are what warm you up from the inside; but they're also what tear you apart. (Polly)
January 18 2010
We will open the book. It's pages are blank. We're gonna put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity, and it's first chapter is New Years Day. (Grant)
Life is full of challenges, both personally and professionally. Some may humble you, but most make you stronger. (NHG)
The most precious thing a Father can do for his children is love their Mother. (Polly)
December 24 2009
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
(Grant)
It's not over till you're dead. (NHG)
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it
seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Polly)
December 23 2009
Christmas Gift Suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. (Grant)
Our background and our circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are reponsible for who we become. (NHG)
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude - don't complain! (Polly)
December 21 2009
Every day is my best day. This is my life - I'm not gonna have this moment again. (Grant)
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. (NHG)
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. (Polly)
December 18 2009
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key. (Grant)
Work hard on remembering the sunshine when the storm seems never-ending. (NHG)
Nothing make the Earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance - they make the latitudes and the longitudes. (Polly)
December 17 2009
Happiness depends on what you can give - not what you can get! (Grant)
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in this world, and it's your life. Go on, and do all you can with it. Make it the life you want to live. (NHG)
Love me when I least deserve it - because that is when I really need it most. (Polly)
December 16 2009
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is needed - you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps! (Grant)
Guard well your spare moments - they are like uncut diamonds. (NHG)
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling, and everyone around you is crying. (Polly)
December 15 2009
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good. (Grant)
No-one ever learnt swimming without jumping into the water. (NHG)
Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky. (Polly)
December 14 2009
Never, never, never give up. (Grant)
Although I've made a million mistakes in my life, I've learnt a million and one lessons. (NHG)
Character is like a tree and reputation it's shadow. The shadow is what we think it is - and the tree is the real thing. (Polly)
December 11 2009
I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat them back, and wish them luck. But I'm thinking - I'm going to bury you. (Grant)
Make the most of the best, and the best of the worst. (NHG)
The question isn't who's gonna let me, it's who's gonna stop me... (Polly)
December 10 2009
It is better to be a lion for one day than to spend one hundred years as a maggot. (Grant)
When one person does a great deal, little is accomplished. When everyone does a little, great things are accomplished. (NHG)
Well-behaved women rarely make history. (Polly)
December 9 2009
So many Gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind - while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Grant)
If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existance that can stop you from achieving what you want. (NHG)
It's amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it's sad when the best of friends become two strangers. (Polly)
December 8 2009
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. (Grant)
Win as if you are used to it, but lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. (NHG)
There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. (Polly)
December 7 2009
Be still sad heart, and cease repining - behind the clouds is the sun still shining! (Grant)
Don't waste energy trying to cover up failures - if you're not failing, you're not growing. (NHG)
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. (Polly)
December 4 2009
For every person - all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there - what you choose to do with them is up to you! (Grant)
We often are so caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey. (NHG)
Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage that continue that counts. (Polly)
December 3 2009
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. (Grant)
You're only as beautiful as you allow yourself to be. (NHG)
A clever person solves a problem, a wise person avoids it. (Polly)
December 2 2009
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way! (Grant)
Thank you parents for all your handicaps, for through them you will find love, your work, and yourself. (NHG)
The statistics on sanity are that 1 out of every 4 people is suffering from mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends - if they're OK, then it's you! (Polly)
December 1 2009
Look at me. Promise me you will always remember - you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (Grant)
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. (NHG)
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. (Polly)
November 30 2009
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. (Grant)
The strange thing about rain is it reveals all of the leaks. (NHG)
Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. (Polly)
November 27 2009
I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work! (Grant)
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done, and forget to be thankful for all that has been done. (NHG)
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairytales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairytales. (Polly)
November 26 2009
Never regret growing older - not everyone has that privilege. (Grant)
If you don't challenge your challengers, your challengers will challenge you. (NHG)
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just like people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail trip ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. (Polly)
November 25 2009
Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those be well tried before you give them your confidence. (Grant)
People will always throw stones in your path - it depends on you and what you want to make from them. Wall or bridge - you are the real architect of your life. (NHG)
Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know. (Polly)
November 24 2009
The talent of success than doing what you can do, well. (Grant)
Believe in yourself, so others may too. (NHG)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Polly)
November 18 2009
A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. (Grant)
Don't spend your entire life playing dressup - be, and do you, literally. (NHG)
Kindness can become it's own motive. We are made kind, by being kind. (Polly)
November 17 2009
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall - that's our greatest glory! (Grant)
Take it all in, let it all out. Always remember, never forget. Grow older, stay young at heart. Be an individual, but stick with your friends. (NHG)
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Polly)
November 16 2009
Go back a little to leap further. (Grant)
An error only becomes a mistake if you refuse to correct it. (NHG)
Sometimes you just have to jump off the bridge and build your wings on the way down. (Polly)
November 13 2009
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be - now put foundations under them. (Grant)
Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less - it means cutting out counter-productive distractions, and the perception of being rushed. (NHG)
Keep in mind hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain, so if somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside.
They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they're trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily. (Polly)
November 12 2009
Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (Grant)
A smile can touch a person's life in ways you can never imagine. It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. Maybe we should smile just a little more often. (NHG)
Before you born your parents weren't as boring as they are now - they got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rainforest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room first. (Polly)
November 11 2009
Govern your life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see one and read the other. (Grant)
Every second gives you an opportunity to create a new beginning for yourself. (NHG)
This is a good sign having a broken heart - it means we've tried for something. (Polly)
November 10 2009
If evil be said of thee, and it be true, correct thyself. If it be a lie, laugh at it. (Grant)
A lyric is glorified with a touch of music, and a dialogue is beautified with the touch of a smile. (NHG)
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love, is to be vulnerable. (Polly)
November 9 2009
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Grant)
Fight until you bleed. Bleed until you accomplish. (NHG)
For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others. (Polly)
November 6 2009
You are what your deep driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. (Grant)
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters, cannot be trusted with the important matters. (NHG)
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. (Polly)
November 5 2009
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Grant)
I've never heard of anyone stumbling on an opportunity sitting down - you've gotta be up and looking! (NHG)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Polly)
November 4 2009
There are five steps in the acquisition of wisdom. The first is silence. The second, listening. The third, memory. The fourth, practice. The fifth? Teaching others. (Grant)
Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending. (NHG)
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. (Polly)
November 3 2009
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid. (Grant)
The chef with the sharpest knife doesn't always make the best meal, and the tallest basketball player isn't always the best on the team. The person with the highest IQ doesn't always nail the test of life, for life is so much more than the tools we are given. It's the way we fashion the tools to suit the task in vogue. (NHG)
I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky. (Polly)
November 2 2009
It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep. (Grant)
It's not about what you've got - it's what you make of what you've got. (NHG)
A man found a cocoon for a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. Something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and deformed wings. It was never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand, was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the smallopening of the cocoon is Nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.
If we were allowed to go through all our life without any obstacles, that would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Not only that, we could never fly.
(Polly)
October 30 2009
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams - live the life you have imagined! (Grant)
Never let a weak moment take away from all the strong ones you've had. (NHG)
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Polly)
October 29 2009
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. (Grant)
Never confuse someone's inability to do something with it's inability to be done. (NHG)
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you learn to appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself...and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. (Polly)
October 28 2009
There is only one person who could ever make you happy - and that person is you! (Grant)
Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusions harm. (NHG)
The best things in life aren't things. (Polly)
October 27 2009
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. (Grant)
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. (NHG)
The truth will set you free - but first it will piss you off! (Polly)
October 23 2009
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. (Grant)
Determination is the key to the doorway of success. (NHG)
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way. (Polly)
October 22 2009
Live in each season as it passes. Breathe the air, drink the drink, tase the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. (Grant)
Natural ability, without education, is like a tree without fruit. (NHG)
When you're in jail, a good friend will try and bail you out. A good friend will be in the cell next to you saying "Dam, that was fun!". (Polly)
October 21 2009
Remember, success is nothing but luck. Just ask any failure. (Grant)
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. (NHG)
You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times, but in the end, it's always their actions that you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter. (Polly)
October 20 2009
Do more than is required - what is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistantly, and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? That extra mile. (Grant)
Education is the best preventative for old age. (NHG)
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You're able to say to yourself "I have lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Polly)
October 9 2009
Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help with the man with the wrong mental attitude. (Grant)
Motivational quotes are mental gems gathered in the diamond district of the mind. (NHG)
October 8 2009
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. (Grant)
Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. (NHG)
"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident." (Polly)
October 7 2009
Doubt who you will, but never doubt yourself. (Grant)
When you get bored, you get distracted, and when you get distracted, you become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it ensures your integrity. (NHG)
Get to know your parents, youll never know when theyll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in the big city once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in a sleepy beach town once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, price will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do youll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Dont expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Dont mess too much with your hair, or by the time its 40, it will look 85.
Be careful who advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than its worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen...
(Polly)
October 6 2009
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. (Grant)
Courage is not the towering oak that sees the storm come and go, it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. (NHG)
At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.". (Polly)
October 5 2009
I'm not telling you it's gonna be easy, I'm telling you it's gonna be worth it. (Grant)
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. (NHG)
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. (Polly)
October 2 2009
Opportunity is missed by most people, because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Grant)
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you are seen to be by others. (NHG)
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. (Polly)
September 30 2009
A person cannot directly choose their circumstances, but they can choose their thoughts - and so indirectly, but surely, shape their circumstances. (Grant)
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. (NHG)
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. (Polly)
September 29 2009
Though no-one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending! (Grant)
Destiny is no matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (NHG)
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it!
(Polly)
September 10 2009
Life is a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things do you the most good. (Grant)
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. (NHG)
Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power. (Polly)
September 9 2009
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. (Grant)
Desire is the starting point of all achievement. Not a hope, not a wish, but a keen, pulsating desire which transcends everything. (NHG)
Be who you are and say what you feel, cos those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. (Polly)
September 8 2009
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. (Grant)
If you're gonna be thinking, you may as well be thinking big. (NHG)
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another "What? You too? I thought I was the only one!" (Polly)
September 7 2009
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Grant)
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow. (NHG)
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realisation that today is the Monday that on Friday night, was a comfortably long way off. (Polly)
September 4 2009
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power. (Grant)
Never be satisfied with what you've achieved, because it all pales in comparison with what you're capable of doing in the future. (NHG)
As my father sees me, so shall I.
As a daughter, all my self-worth comes from how much my father values me.
The amount of affection he pays me as a child is what I will come to expect from a man.
The respect he shows my mother will be what I tolerate from a husband.
The time invested in me as a child will equal the amount of time I invest in him during his golden years.
How he sees me in his eyes, is how I will see myself.
A little girl becomes exactly what her father says she is.
In short, I will be the product of what you do and say around me, to me, and to others.
No compliment or blessing is any higher than that of my daddy's.
In short, how you see me is how I will be.
The least little comment, especially negative, I will take to heart.
You think the sun will rise and set with me, but without you I have no world.
You are my daddy, and little girls need their daddies. (Polly)
September 3 2009
All that is gold, does not glitter. Not all those who wander, are lost. The old that is strong, does not wither. Deep roots are not reached by frost... (Grant)
If not us, who? If not now, when? (NHG)
Time heals almost everything. Give time.
However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Believe in miracles.
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
Your children get only one childhood.
All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
The best is yet to come.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Yield.
Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.
(Polly)
August 21 2009
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, then to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Grant)
Nobody trips over mountains - it is the small pebbles that cause you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you've crossed over the mountain. (NHG)
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. (Polly)
August 20 2009
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. (Grant)
The better way to deal with the ups and downs of your life is to furnish your mind with little special memories from things you've seen. (NHG - he made it up himself!)
Men often give love for sex. Women often give sex for love. (Polly)
August 19 2009
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. (Grant)
Most of the shadows in this life are caused by us standing in our own sunshine. (NHG)
A friend walks in when everyone else walks out. (Polly)
August 18 2009
You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdow my friend. (Grant)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence. (NHG)
Let no-one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. (Polly)
August 17 2009
What you resists, persists. If you take ownership and deal with the things that are bothering you, then in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away. (Grant)
Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. (NHG)
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good times with friends today, enjoy it and be thankful for it. Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today - do not let yourself be cheated out of it. (Polly)
August 3 2009
Without music, life would be a mistake. (Grant)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (NHG)
To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignifigance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to it's lair. To never simplify what is complicated, or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch, to try and understand, to never look away, and never, never, to forget. (Polly)
July 28 2009
Hit quickly, hit hard, and keep right on hitting - give the enemy no rest, no opportunity to consolidate it's forces and hit back at you - this is the shortest road to victory. (Grant)
It's not necessarily the smartest of animals, or physically gifted, but remember - the dog became man's best friend because of loyalty. That reminds us it's crazy who, and what, wins each race in life. (NHG)
Well behaved women rarely make history. (Polly)
July 27 2009
By all means marry - if you get a good wife, you will become happy. If you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher. (Grant)
Sometimes the salt can outweigh the pepper. (NHG) [Yep, he made it up.]
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. (Polly)
July 22 2009
The ideas that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth. (Grant)
When you need love, love yourself. When you need acceptance, accept yourself. When you need encouragement, encourage yourself, and when you feel the need to fit in, remember you already do - in your own life. (NHG)
Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. (Polly)
July 21 2009
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. (Grant)
When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself. (NHG)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. (Polly)
July 20 2009
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. (Grant)
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (NHG)
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, when we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves, we are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be - incompleteness in abscence. (Polly)
July 17 2009
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this - decide what you want. (Grant)
Don't be discouraged as it's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. (NHG)
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realise it.
Life is a challenge, meet it
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it!
(Polly)
July 16 2009
There are only two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle. (Grant)
When it comes to your goals, remember - you may not be there yet, but you're closer than you were yesterday. (NHG)
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are with us, and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it be - without wishing for what he has not. (Polly)
July 15 2009
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. (Grant)
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. (NHG)
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship? Never. (Polly)
July 14 2009
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Grant)
Be courageous, it's the only place left uncrowded. (NHG)
If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else. (Polly)
July 13 2009
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Grant)
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no, and if you don't step forward, you'll always be in the same place. (NHG)
A man never dicloses his own character so clearly as when he desribes another's - everything you say about someone else, tells me something about you. (Polly)
July 9 2009
Imagination is more important than knowledge - knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. (Grant)
If we do not plant knowledge when we are young, it will give us no shade when we are old. (NHG)
Talent hits a target that no-one else can hit - genius hits a target no-one else can see. (Polly)
July 8 2009
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. (Grant)
Remember, it can take 20 years to make an overnight success. (NHG)
Women are like teabags - you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water. (Polly)
July 7 2009
Courage is not limited to the battlefield, or the Indianapolis 500, or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of your courage are much quieter - they are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood. (Grant)
A smile is a language that even a baby understands. (NHG)
I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. [Marilyn Monroe] (Polly)
July 6 2009
The true test of a man's character, is what he does when he thinks no-one is looking. (Grant)
It takes a couple of seconds to say hello but forever to say goodbye. (NHG)
When men speak ill of you, live so as no-one can possibly believe them. (Polly)
July 3 2009
Courage is resistance to fear and mastery of fear, not absence of fear. (Grant)
A person who never makes mistakes, never makes anything. (NHG)
A good marriage is like a casserole - only those responsible for it really know what goes in. (Polly)
June 29 2009
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. (Grant)
If there's an orangutan that's in your jungle that's bigger than you, it can't sit up on small branches, so feel good about yourself, cos it'll fall... [What?] (NHG)
It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (Polly)
June 18 2009
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems - everyone knows exactly how to solve everyone elses! (Grant)
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. (NHG)
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. (Polly)
May 29 2009
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. (Grant)
"A healthy attitude is contagious, but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier." (NHG)
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or our condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. (Polly)
May 28 2009
Your most unhappy customers are you greatest source of learning. (Grant)
The tree of wisdom is watered by tears. (NHG)
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. (Polly)
May 27 2009
The difference between a moral man and a man of honour is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. (Grant)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (NHG)
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, count. (Polly)
May 26 2009
Before you think it can't possibly happen to me, remember, if it happens, it's possible. (Grant)
When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise. (NHG)
Some days you're the dog - some days, you're the hydrant. (Polly)
May 25 2009
Adversity has the same effect on a person as severe training has on the boxer - it reduces him to his fighting weight. (Grant)
Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. (NHG)
Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. (Polly)
May 22 2009
Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. (Grant)
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us. (NHG)
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. (Polly)
May 21 2009
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. (Grant)
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. (NHG)
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. (Polly)
May 20 2009
Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. It may not be logical but it is often true. (Grant)
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money and possessions. (NHG)
Love is like a rollercoaster. When it's good you don't wanna get off, but when it isn't, you can't wait to throw up. (Polly)
May 19 2009
Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. (Grant)
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. (NHG)
If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault. (Polly)
May 18 2009
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump - you may be freeing him from being a camel! (Grant)
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. (NHG)
The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really. The coolest thing you can do for your children is to love each other in their presence. (Polly)
May 15 2009
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. (Grant)
Never think you can't achieve. After all, it only took one acorn. (NHG)
That secret you've been guarding, isn't. (Polly)
May 14 2009
If you're in a bad situtation, don't worry, it'll change! If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change... (Grant)
The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. (NHG)
God gives every bird it's food, but he doesn't throw it into it's nest... (Polly)
May 13 2009
Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores. We can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. (Grant)
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. (NHG)
Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm. (Polly)
May 5 2009
If you're going through hell, keep going. (Grant)
Take time to recharge your batteries. Its hard to see where you’re going when the lights are dim. (NHG)
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about it's width and depth. (Polly)
May 4 2009
There are some defeats that are more triumphant than victories. (Grant)
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak... sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. (NHG)
Growing old is mandatory - growing up is optional. (Polly)
April 28 2009
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. (Grant)
If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail. [What?] (NHG)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. (Polly courtesy of Confucius)
April 7 2009
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Grant courtesy of Mark Twain)
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. (NHG)
In life's innermost truths, youth is lonelier than old age! (Polly)
April 6 2009
When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. (Grant courtesy of Bill Clinton)
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. (NHG)
It's easier to forgive and enemy than forgive a friend. (Polly courtesy of William Blake)
April 3 2009
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. (Grant)
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd... (NHG)
"When I was a child, my mother said to me 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope'. Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso" (Pablo Picasso through Polly)
April 2 2009
"He who would learn to fly one day, must first learn to stand, and walk, and run, and climb and dance; One can not fly in to flying." (Grant)
A reputation may be repaired, but people will always keep their eyes on the place the crack is. (NHG)
"No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously." (Polly)
April 1 2009
Never look down on any-body, unless you are helping him up. (Grant)
A man has three names: the name he inherits, the name his parents give him, and the name he makes for himself. (NHG)
If everything is under control, you are going too slow - Mario Andretti (Polly)
March 31 2009
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. (Grant)
As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. (NHG)
"Forgive your enemies,but never forget their names". (Polly)
March 30 2009
Act as if what you do makes a difference - it does! (Grant)
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." (NHG)
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. (Polly)
March 27 2009
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed by the light from within. (Grant)
Activity and sadness are incompatible. (NHG)
Nearly all men can stand adversity and hard time, but if you want to test a mans true character, give him power.... (Polly)
March 26 2009
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! (Grant)
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. (NHG)
Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. (Polly)
March 24 2009
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. (Grant)
Today I shall behave as though this is the one by which I shall be remembered. (NHG)
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. (Polly)
March 23 2009
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. (Grant)
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. (NHG)
It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. (Polly)
March 18 2009
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail. (Grant)
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, be sure to experience joy as we have all known sadness. (NHG)
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put something away for a rainy day, and the unexpected arrival of rain. (Polly)
March 17 2009
The most important key to achieving great success, is to decide upon your goal, and start! (Grant)
More men are sorry for speaking, then keeping silence (NHG)
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work - you only need to find one good reason why it will (Polly)