just for today....

 

To be interesting, you have to be interested.

Good habits are the soul's muscles. The more you use them, the stronger they grow.The best way to attain wisdom is to assume you don't already possess it.
It is better to be short of cash than short of character.
Take the time to be grateful for all the things around you, both large and small, and the beauty of life will be yours.
Great trials seem to be necessary preparation for great duties.
Perhaps the reason there is no fool like an old fool is because that, too, takes practice.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Procrastination is a fault most people put off trying to correct.
Plan with vision, proceed with optimism, and achieve with enthusiasm.
The world is blessed most by people who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.
We are not what we think we are, but what we think, we are.
The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.
The rainbows of life follow the storms.
If you give comfort to others, you'll know how to heal your own hurts.
Worry pulls tomorrow's clouds over today's sunshine.
The art of successful diplomacy is reading between the lines.
Contact with an opportunity is like contact with a live wire - it's likely to plow you over unless you are prepared to handle it.
Talent is wanting something bad enough to work for it.
Knowledge is one thing that doesn't become secondhand when used.
Ambition without application never broke any records.
No cloud could cast a dark shadow if the sun were not behind it.
If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.
If we cannot get all we want, we should be thankful we don't get all we deserve.Kindness is the golden chain by which the world is bound together.


~Guideposts magazine article