Thursday, March 21, 2013

Pat here, we are doing great.  Just trying to wait patiently until we can pick out our new house.  Hershey is doing great.  My walking is going good.  I am changing one of my medications, whenever I have to increase the dose, it throws me for a loop for a while, but it is all good in the long run.  Lately, I have been playing a lot of Monopoloy and every time I get Free Parking or a big payout, I stand up and lift my walker in the air.  Kind of like the endzone dance, but better.  My physical therapist keeps kicking my butt, but it is really helping, so I just try to endure it. Okay, that's it for now.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Thoughts for today

  • "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." – Albert Einstein
  • "Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." – Albert Einstein
  • "Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life." - Alvin Toffler
  • "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." – Anne Frank
  • "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." – Aristotle
  • "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." – Arthur C. Clarke
  • "Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." – Benjamin Disraeli
  • "Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill." – Charles Swindoll
  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius
  • "Don’t take yourself too seriously. And don’t be too serious about not taking yourself too seriously." – Howard Ogden
  • "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha
  • "Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent." – Carl Sandburg
  • "Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes." – Charles Prestwich Scott
  • "To talk goodness is not good… only to do it is." – Chinese proverb
  • "Don’t put a limit on what can be accomplished." – Christopher Reeve
  • "An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind." – Dr. Albert Schweitzer
  • "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • "A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change." – Earl Nightingale
  • "Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us." – Earl Nightingale
  • "Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time." – Elbert Green Hubbard
  • "Funny is an attitude." – Flip Wilson
  • "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." – George Bernard Shaw
  • "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." – George S. Patton
  • "Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one." – Hans Selye
  • "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." – Helen Adams Keller
  • "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them." – Henry David Thoreau
  • "When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived." -Henry David Thoreau
  • "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." – Herm Albright
  • "It is not the position, but the disposition." – J. E. Dinger
  • "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." – John Wooden
  • "Words are plentiful; deeds are precious." – Lech Walesa
  • "Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." – Lou Holtz
  • "The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." – Marcel Proust
  • "The best way to cheer yourself up: Cheer everybody else up." – Mark Twain
  • "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose– a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." – Mary Shelley
  • "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." – Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” – Muhammad Ali
  • "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." – Oscar Wilde
  • "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." – Plato
  • "He who hesitates is lost." – Proverb
  • "Fortune favors the brave." – Publius Terence
  • "To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost
  • "Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost." – Robert H. Schuller
  • "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." – Samuel Johnson
  • "The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be." - Socrates
  • "Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic." – The Zurich Axioms
  • "Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open." – Thomas Dewar
  • ". . . Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." – Victor E. Frankl
  • "Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need." – Voltaire
  • "Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity." – Walter Dill Scott
  • "It’s great to be great, but its greater to be human." – Will Rogers
  • "You cannot raise a man up by calling him down." – William Boetcker
  • "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." – William James
  • "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." – William James
  • "The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." – Winston Churchill
  • "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls." – Winston Churchill
  • "Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it." – Winston Churchill