“I gravitate towards gravitas.” — Morgan Freeman
“You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.” — Unknown
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” — Lao Tzu
“If we like them, they’re freedom fighters, she thought. If we don’t like them, they’re terrorists. In the unlikely case we can’t make up our minds, they’re temporarily only guerrillas.” — Carl Sagan
“Gossip is the Devil’s radio.” — George Harrison
“What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?” — Henry Miller
“It’s a kind of tired that sleep can’t fix.” — Unknown
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” — Robert Orben
“Let go or be dragged.” — Zen Proverb
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Ignoring the signs is a good way to end up at the wrong destination.” — Unknown
“I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.” — Bill Veeck
“No deal is better than a bad deal.” — Mark Cuban
“You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.” — Olivia Laing
“To those who are given much, much is expected.” — Maya Angelou
“We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent.” — Ellen DeGeneres
“Beautiful people do not just happen.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“You need to prepare for the unexpected because there is 100 percent certainty the unexpected will happen.” — Kevin O’Leary
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents.” — Andrew Carnegie
“He’s liked, but he’s not well liked.” — Arthur Miller
When I tell people I meet that I live in Phoenix, AZ, at some point in the conversation their eyes get real big and they generally ask something like: “How can you take the heat?” I then explain that during the hot weather, and when my wife and I are in “the Valley” (as it is called), we get up at 5AM to do all of the outside chores which are primarily gardening and we are back inside by 6:30 or 7AM.
After that, we focus many of our days on the 3Ms (not the manufacturing company): Museums, Malls and Movies. With that introduction, I would like to share a video of one of our area meteorologists who reported SIGNIFICANTLY higher than usual temperatures even for our very warm summer desert. Grab a cold drink before watching!
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Ruth Graham
“That is the bitterest of all, — to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.” — George Eliot
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” — Paulo Coelho
“For parents, bribery is a white-collar crime; for grandparents, it’s a business plan.” — Lesley Stahl
“Sometimes you have to be your own hero.” — Mirage
“When you have money in your hand, only you forget who you are. But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forgets who you are.” — Bill Gates
“Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.” — Robert Brault
“Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.” — Harry Truman
“Children need time to be bored; that is how creativity is born.” — Melanie Jean Juneau
“Never think that what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there that needs what you have to give.” — Unknown
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.” — Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
“The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.” — Allard Lowenstein
“No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves.” — Native American Proverb
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“Don’t believe everything you think.” — Byron Katie
“I’m sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.” — Colin Powell