Thought for the Day - #9

Wow, how times flies, it's already time to start a new page for this thread. : - )
I'm glad everyone seems to be enjoying reading it, and we always welcome your contributions.
This is where we came from, in case you missed anything.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1126367/#top

I hope that everyone continues to share their thoughts. Or even those of others, that have touched them in some way. Sometimes we get silly, but we do have FUN! : - )
Thanks to everyone who participates, even if you don't post (and we would like hearing from you!), you are all appreciated.
Walk In Beauty!
Singing Wolf

Thanks SW.
Here's my wisdom for the day...

'An optimist is a person who believes that whatever happens, no matter how bad, is for the best...The pessimist is the person to whom it happened.'

I liked this one, and it reminds me of a lot of celebrities.

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
-Warren Buffet~

WIB,
SW

Thanks weegy,
DH came in and I forgot to post the previous post. I really needed to laugh or at least chuckle.
: - )
Here's another one I like a lot. : - )

"You aren't your experiences. You are what you make of them."
~Deborah Bell, Ed. D.~

Words to live by! : - )
WIB!
SW

“Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.”
Mike Myers

“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a great start to this page! : - )
Sweet ones, kwanjin!

"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."
~Pearl S. Buck~

WIB~
SW

I'm loving all of them today, too. I found this one...

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
J.R.R.Tolkien

I;ll drink to that!
LOL~
WIB~
Jules

"The healthiest way to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds."
~ Dan Barrett from the title page of http://www.seedaholic.com

~ Evelyn

I'll drink to that evelyn!

I'll drunk to that, too! LOL

LOL!!!

SW Thought you didn't drink??? Louise.........Knew you wine.

Just to let you know I've been lurking, too lazy to look up an appropriate quote.

Love youz,
Sylvia

@ Sylvia...LOL, you know me so well!! I whine too!
Here's mine for today...

It seems the only professional still making house calls is the burglar!

I drink, but figured you'd realize it'd be chocolate milk. LOL!
Really alcohol adversely affects me with the meds I take. I've been known to take a sip of champagne or wine during a toast. But that's it for me these days. : - |
Glad Sylvia is getting over her cold. : o )

My first thought for this day.
"Live your life and forget your age."
~Norman Vincent Peale~

"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
~Norman MacEwan~

Walk In Beauty~
SingingWolf

"When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden."
Unknown

An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" and not think of the Lone Ranger!

Well, I already knew I was not an intellectual...this proves it!

I'm with you on that one, Weegy....my mother loved those old westerns as my folks were from El Paso. She watched Bonanza religiously as well...I was born there, but grew up in L.A.

"Call on God, but row away from the rocks." ~ Robert M. Young

"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit." ~ D. Elton Trueblood

"No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy" ~ Bern Williams in National Enquirer

Oh, I love that last one, Evelyn!

Good ones Evelyn.

The light from spirit depths
Strives to ray outwards, sun imbued;
Transformed to forceful will of life
It shines into the senses dullness
To bring to birth the powers
Whereby creative forces, soul impelled,
Shall ripen into human deeds ~ Rudolph Steiner

English translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch

Well, I enjoyed them all. SW, I do not drink either. It interferes with my mouth and what comes out of it. Love you all. Baby Luke is in town. He is now 1 year old. Photo is Baby Luke easting his birthday cake.

Good morning everyone...

Children are a great comfort in your old age----and they help you reach it faster!!

...and here's my family. 5 of those are mine! (Son's wedding last June)

Wow! Beautiful picture!

;-)

I agree!!!

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
John Wayne

Been there, done that, bought the tee shirt.


Now my life is as a retired person, mostly don't have to be there or done that anymore, don't need any more tee shirts.

Has anyone heard from Desert Pirate lately? Miss him.

Sylvia

He's not on DG any more, but I do hear from him occasionally. Sounds like he is doing well. He is active on another site, and has a political blog where he frequently posts.

He just had a birthday about a week ago, so I sent him a message. We had lots of pirates trick-or-treating in our neighborhood, and it made me think of him. :-) I had the pleasure of meeting him a year ago, when he stopped by on his way to visit his mother. He's a true gentleman.

Angie

PS Sent him a message letting him know you asked. I'm sure he'll be pleased!

This message was edited Nov 8, 2010 7:14 PM

evelyn,
What have we done! LOL! Some really great ones, by golly I think you've got "IT". : - )
I loved the quote about planting trees knowing full well that you'll never be able to enjoy their shade!
That sounds like something I'd do. : - )
Weegy, I've got the William Tell Overture stuck in my mind now, SLOL!
You are so right about the kids, and you raised a crop of great ones. : - )
Loved the John Wayne, quote kwanjin. : - )
Angie, please tell Randy aka Desert Pirate that we all miss him. : - (
He is a gent. and Lisa was sweet. Please tell him that Buddy Holly (the kitten we adopted from him), is now up to a whopping 13 lbs. He's graduated from bringing me lizards to live birds. (We catch and release them.) I was also wondering how Fred (the one-eyed rooster I gave him), and his harem are?

"The choice of heaven is shown in the conduct of men."
~4th Century B.C. proverb attributed to Mencius a follower of Confucius~

"Life is defined by the ambition, the need, the urge, to avoid death. That's what makes us human."
~Raymond Khoury from the book "The Sanctuary"~

"To realize our true destiny, we must be guided not by a myth from our past, but by a vision of our future."
~Mark B. Adams, discussing the visionary biology of J. B. S. Haldane~

WIB,
SW

" The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or
>>> touched - they must be felt with the heart"
~ Helen Keller~
WIB,
SW

This week's Love Our Earth quote

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."
~ Gary Snyder

"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons; it is to grow in the open air and eat and sleep with the Earth."
~ Walt Whitman

Sweet evelyn. I've got my work cut out for me today! : - )

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.~

WIB,
SW

I found another one.

"That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion."
~Albert Einstein~

WIB~
SW

SW ~ I did not know that this was a competition.

" To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty" ~ Emerson

"Summer is a voyage between two distant shores." ~ D. Cavagnaro

"Those things are better which are perfected by nature..." ~ Cicero

DEEP..........

Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.

Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

evelyn, it's not a competition or if it is it's a friendly one. : - )
Loved all three of your quotes today. They always make me stop and think. : - )
Nice one shermie. I didn't know that there was a Tao of Pooh?
Such great quotes!
WIB!
SW

Ok, as long as we are friendly... ^-^