Another quote

"I believe, that love is the answer.  I believe, that love will find the way."
--Blessid Union of Souls

Quotes

• Without hope men are only half alive.  With hope they dream and think and work.  --Charles Sawyer
• The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.  --Harvey Milk
• We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.  --John F Kennedy
• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.  --Dale Carnegie
• If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.  And so today I still have a dream.  --Martin Luther King, Jr.
• If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.  --Geena Davis
• Take chances, make mistakes.  That's how you grow.  Pain nourishes your courage.  You have to fail in order to practice being brave.  --Mary Tyler Moore
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  --Robert Frost
• You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you'll discover is yourself.  --Alan Alda
• Be bold.  If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.  --Billie Jean King

GNP

There's a man I knew in my college years, who passed a few weeks ago.  He was such a positive force in so many peoples' lives, and he was known for his "starred thoughts."  There's an event in his honor today, and the event page listed many of his starred thoughts.  They're great and an inspiration:

"What is wrong with the world? There's not enough clapping."
"Work harder to create a better environment."
"Never miss an opportunity to be nice."
"You're at your best when things are at their worst."
"Work smarter not harder."
"Don't waste time on the stupid things."
"Set a goal; then reach it."
"Always set the bar a little higher."
"Don't quit when things are difficult."
"Success needs a great attitude."
"Every time you don't do something because you're afraid of failure, you failed."
"If you give less than 100%, everyone around you will suffer."
"Appreciate what you have.

No day but today.

I didn't write a post yesterday, though I definitely wrote on in my head many times.  So, today's post will be a jumble of today's thoughts and yesterday's.

• Billy Joel--"This is the time to remember, cause it will not last forever."
• In The Happiness Project book, one of her readers wrote a comment about depression.  Am I depressed?  Is that my problem?  Or am I just dissatisfied?  Is there a difference?
• I'm not so much into prayer or, really, much about religion at all, but yet, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; and Wisdom to know the difference."

On sarcasm.  It seems that snark is pervading our culture.  A google search "snark blog" yields more than 800,000 results.  Sarcasm is a way of life for us here in NJ, and my sarcastic sense of humor has formed the core of who I think myself to be.  But should it?  It's certainly not nice.  This morning, as I changed a gross diaper, I thought back to when my older son was the same age.  I joked, "I'm not feeding him solids until he's potty trained."  Maybe this isn't the nastiest thing in the whole world, but it definitely shows something about my character that maybe I don't want to be there. 

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

 

But then, if I don't have a sarcastic wit, can I still be funny?  Is it even possible to refrain from being so sarcastic?