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Teri · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 4:44 am Post subject:

The fact that life is a grind is what sharpens many a man's wits. ~Boston Transcript, 1923

JohnT · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:15 pm Post subject:

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”

― Oprah Winfrey (born 1954)
Oprah Winfrey is indeed an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist.

Teri · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:47 am Post subject:

The typewriter is so much more to be reckoned with than the sword. ~Lee Thayer

JohnT · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 7:20 pm Post subject:

I goofed in trying to format the message below.
Somehow, I wound up posting 2 things.
Ignore this!
Not my intention.
Thought I could delete one of them.
Nope
Read below!

JohnT · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 7:22 pm Post subject:

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard

--- Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014)
Another verse abstracted from her poem titled "Still I Rise".
She was an award-winning poet who recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning"(1993) at the first inauguration of Bill Clinton.

JohnT · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:53 am Post subject:

Don’t aim to be consistently great; aim to be great at being consistent.

--- Brad Stulberg (from an article titled "The Case for Being Good Enough")
Brad Stulberg researches, writes, speaks, and coaches on health and the science of human performance.

JohnT · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:31 pm Post subject:

Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day.

--- Valerie Harper (an American actor, played Rhoda Morgenstern on TV, diagnosed with brain cancer in 2013, born 1940, died August 30, 2019)

Teri · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:47 am Post subject:

A toast today to all the invisible people doing jobs mysteriously getting done. ~Robert Brault

Teri · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:59 am Post subject:

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?" ~Robert Brault

JohnT · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:26 pm Post subject:

“Reading sheds light on the dark path ahead. By traveling into the past, I enhance my grasp of the present.”

--- Jim Mathis, former Secretary of Defense under Trump, born 1950

Teri · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:07 am Post subject:

I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. ~L. M. Montgomery

Teri · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:12 am Post subject:

Wounds heal and become scars. But scars grow with us. ~Stanislaw J. Lec

JohnT · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:50 am Post subject:

“An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist.”

― Matshona Dhliwayo
Matshona Dhliwayo is a Canadian-based philosopher, entrepreneur, and author of books such as The Art of Winning, Dinner with King Solomon and Lalibela's Wise Man.

JohnT · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:07 pm Post subject:

“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four?

― George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic, author of the novel 1984, born 1903, died 1950.

Teri · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:56 am Post subject:

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines. ~Robert Brault