The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first sign of a nervous breakdown
is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
--Milo Bloom
Life is what happens to you
while you are making other plans.
unknown
Experience is a great
advantage.
The problem is that when you get the experience,
you're too damned old to do anything about it.
--Jimmy Connors
What we do, depends upon how we feel,
about what we know.
--Lloyd Davis
No one agrees with
other people's opinion, they merely agree
with their own opinions expressed by somebody else.
--Shirley Zieve
A conclusion is simply
the place where you got tired of thinking.
unknown
If you think education is expense - try
ignorance.
--Derek Bok
"Would those of you who say it can't be
done,
stop bothering those of us who are doing it."
unknown
The people I distrust
most are those who want to improve our lives
but have only one course of action.
--Frank Herbert
The sports page
records people's accomplishments;
The front page nothing but their failures.
--Jutice Earl Warren
Slow and steady wins the race.
--Robert Lloyd (The Hare and the Tortoise)
The test of the
morality of a society is what it does for its children.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The most important
things to do in the world are
to get something to eat, something to drink
and somebody to love you.
--Brandan Behan
There is nothing permanent except change.
--Heraclitus
When the president does it, that means it is not
illegal.
--Richard Nixon
Those
who stand for nothing fall for anything.
--Alex Hamilton
The
whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russel
The bitterest
tears shed over graves
are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
The clearer we should see through it.
--- Jean Paul
The strongest
man in the world is he who stands alone.
--Henrik Ibsen
Treat the earth well: Remember that is was not given to us by our
parents...
But was lent to us by our children.
-unknown
We
can't all be heroes because someone has to
sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
--Will Rogers
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
--Richard Cecil
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde
Most of the time a slow period in the business world
is simply the calm before the storm.
--Steven Boehm
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
--Carrie P. Snow
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with
the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
--George Washington Carver
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts
as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
--Sir William Bragg
...bloody jungles in Vietnam.
I walk in silence with each of your honored dead to their resting place.
Beneath the silent white crosses, row upon row.
I have flown through peace and war, strive and prosperity;
and amidst it all, I have been respected.
My red stripes symbolize the blood spilled in defense
of this glorious nation.
My white stripes signify the burning tears shed by Americans
who lost their sons.
My blue field is indicative of God's Heaven under which I fly.
My stars are clustered together, unifying 50 states as one,
for God and country.
"Old Glory" is my nickname, and proudly I wave on high.
Honor me, respect me, defend me with your life and your fortunes.
Never let my enemies tear me down from my lofty position,
least I never return.
Keep alight the fires of patriotism, strive earnestly for the spirit of
democracy.
Worship eternal God and keep His commandments, And I shall remain
the bulwark of peace and freedom for all mankind.
--Author Unknown
The past gives us experience and memories; the present gives us
challenges and opportunities; the future gives us visions and hope.
-- William Arthur Ward
Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it.
-unknown
The function of
genius is not to give new answers,
but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
--Hugh Trevor-Roper (Men and Events)
Life is sort of like camping - you can eliminate about 75%
of the inconveniences by having a good state of mind, planning
ahead and being prepared to make due with what you have to
work with. The other 25% is part of the adventure.
-- Steven Boehm (www.LavacaCounty.com)
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye,
but only few will catch your heart..."
-- Pursue Those
"Character is made by what you stand for;
reputation by what you fall for."
-- Alexander Woolcott
You can buy people's time; you can buy their physical
presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured
number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But
you cannot buy enthusiasm...you cannot buy loyalty...
you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls.
You must earn these.
--Clarence Francis
Your rewards
all the years of your life will be
in exact proportion to your service.
-- Earl Nightingale
Show me the person you honor, and I will know what kind
of person you are, for it shows me what your idea of
character is, and what kind of person you long to be.
--Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
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You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him to find it within himself.
-- Galileo
WORDS TO LIVE BY
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
-- Henry J. Kaiser
Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them
than upon what they make us see in ourselves.
--Sarah C.
We are what we
repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
--Aristotle
Things do not change;
we change.
--Henry David Thoreau
You can't sweep people off their feet
if you can't be swept off your own.
--Clarence Day
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears it is true.
--Robert Oppenheimer
A real friend is one
who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
--Walter Winchell
Being rich is having
money; being wealthy is having time.
--Stephen Swid
Every man stamps his
value on himself...man is made great or small by his sown will.
--J.C.F. von Schiller
Education is not the
piling on of learning, information, data, facts,
skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making
visible what is hidden as a seed...
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed,
but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the
transformative events of an engaged human life...
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled
but few are educated.
--Thomas Moore
Some
of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures.
The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
--Tryon Edwards
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their
commitment
to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
--Vince Lombardi
Cherish your
yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, but live your todays.
-Unknown
Our self-image and our
habits tend to go together.
Change one and you will automatically change the other.
--Dr. Maxwell Maltz
The real measure of
our wealth is how much we would be worth if we lost our money.
-Unknown
Those who flee
temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
--Lane Olinghouse
There are two ways of
meeting difficulties:
you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
--Phyllis Bottome
The greatest
pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
--Walter Bagehot
There are three ways a
man can be ruined:
women, gambling, and farming.
My father chose the most boring.
--Pope John XXIII.
1881-1963.
We must adjust to changing times and still
hold to unchanging principles
--Jimmy Carter, quoting his high school teacher Julia Coleman
Inaugural address, January 20, 1977
Everyone
is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
--John Barth
Nearly all men can
stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
--Abraham Lincoln
We attract hearts by the qualities we display;
we retain them by the qualities we possess.
--Suard
Life moves pretty fast.
If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
--Ferris Bueller
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
--Mark Twain
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed,
The oldest problem in relations between human beings,
And in the end the communicator will be confronted with
The old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
-- Edward R. Murrow
No trumpets sound when the
important decisions
of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
-- Agnes De Mille
Man supposes he directs his life and governs his actions,
when his existence is irretrievably under control of destiny
--Goethe
The governors of the
world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching
falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this,
absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and
that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.
(From The Prospects of Industrial Civilization [London: Allen &
Unwin, 1923], p. 252; written in collaboration with Dora Russell)
-- Michael Rockler
We're in such a hurry
most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless
day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all
the time went and sorry that it's all gone.
-- Robert M. Pirsig
[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]
Nothing is so strong
as gentleness;
nothing so gentle as real strength.
--Francis De Sales
The man who insists upon seeing with
perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
Accept life, and you must accept regret.
--Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1856
If you want something
done, ask a busy person to do it
The more things you do, the more you can do.
--Lucille Ball
All mankind is divided into three classes:
those that are immovable, those that are movable,
and those that move.
--Arabian Proverb
Political power grows out of the barrel of a
gun.
--Mao Tse-tung
A man is the sum of his actions,
of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
--Andre Malraux
Our lives improve only when we take chances
-- and
the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
--Walter Anderson
Now, I say to you
today my friends,
even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its
creed: -
'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
--Martin Luther King
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
--Carl Jung
Science is to see what everyone else has
seen
but think what no one else has thought.
--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in
the New Age,
because there's a seeker born every minute.
--The Firesign Theatre
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks
them.
--Suzanne Necker
Advertisements contain the only truths to be
relied on in a newspaper.
--Mark Twain
The United States is a nation of laws:
badly written and randomly enforced.
--Frank Zappa
I find the great thing in this world is not
so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
As I travel down that bluebonnet highway,
I'm thankful I was born a lucky man.
And I know that I will live and die my own way,
somewhere between the Red and Rio Grande.
--Doug Supernaw - Red and Rio Grande CD
It is no measure of health to be well
adjusted to a profoundly sick society
--Krishnamurti
Perhaps, after all, America never has been
discovered.
I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
--Oscar Wilde
Purpose
serves as a principle around which to organize our lives.
-Unknown
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life
which is required to be exchanged for it,
immediately or in the long run.
--Thoreau, Henry David
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have
trouble doing it.
--Tallulah Bankhead
Science has proof without any certainty.
Creationists have certainty without any proof.
--Ashley Montague
Great minds have purposes, little minds have
wishes.
--Washington Irving
The education of the will is the object of
our existence.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon
and wise too late.
--Benjamin Franklin
If I have seen farther than others, it is
because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
--Isaac Newton
"No, it is better not. She will only
ask me to take a message to Albert."
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), British statesman.
On his deathbed, declining an offer of a visit from Queen Victoria
A
New Year
Another
fresh new year is here…
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This
bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest…
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I
have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
--William Arthur Ward
Genius
without education
is like silver in the mine.
--Benjiman Franklin
Derive
happiness in oneself
from a good day's work,
from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
--Henri Matisse
Noble
deeds and hot baths
are the best cures for depression.
-- Dodie Smith
I've
learned that no matter
what happens, or how bad it seems today,
life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a
person by the way he/she handles these three
things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and
tangled Christmas tree lights.
I've learned that regardless of your
relationship with your parents, you'll miss
them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that making a "living" is not the
same thing as making a "life".
I've learned that life sometimes gives
you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through
life with a catcher's mitt on both hands.
You need to be able to throw something back.
I've learned that if you pursue happiness,
it will elude you. But if you focus on your
family, your friends, the needs of others,
your work and doing the very best you can,
happiness will find you.
I've learned that whenever I decide something
with an open heart, I usually make the right
decision.
I've learned that even when I have pains,
I do not have to be one.
I've learned that every day you should reach
out and touch someone. People love that human
touch - holding hands, a warm hug, or just
a friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that you should pass this on
to someone you care about... I just did.
Sometimes they just need a little something to
make them smile.
A SPECIAL NOTE:
People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them
feel
One may understand the cosmos,
but never the ego;
the self
is more distant than any star.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Perfect freedom is reserved
for the man who lives
by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
--R. G. Collingwood
The
reward of a duty is the power to fulfill another
--George Eliot
Man is not the creature of circumstances.
Circumstances are the creatures of men.
--Benjamin Disraeli
Life was meant to be lived and
curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Indolence is a delightful but
distressing state;
we must be doing something to be happy.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Seek not the things that are
too hard for thee,
neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
-
- Apocrypha
It
is a capital mistake to theorize
before one has data.
--Arthur Conan Doyle
If
people can see something attractive,
then they'll want it. And if
they can see it and want it,
then they can have it.
--Francis Ford Coppola
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling
to it long enough, and not a doubt it will turn true again, for so
it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths
being in and out of favor. As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish I
could devote and dedicate forever to the truths we keep coming back
and back to. Robert Frost
Smile, it increases your face value.
--Dolly Parton,
from Steel Magnolias
There is no gain in life
like
the genius of energy and industry.
-- Donald Grant Mitchell
No
legacy is so rich as honesty.
--William Shakespeare
Hold on to a true friend with both
hands.
--Unknown
Happiness is not having what you want,
it's wanting what you have.
--Unknown
Self-reliance is the only road
to true freedom,
and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
--Patricia Sampson
People hear what you say,
a friend listens to what you don't say;
a best
friend hears what you don't say.
-Unknown
The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
-Unknown
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest
that it leaves
your arms too full
to embrace the present.
--Jan Gildwell
Whoso would be a man must be a
nonconformist.
He who would gather immortal palms
must not be hindered by the name of goodness,
but must explore if it be goodness.
Nothing is at last sacred
but the integrity of your own mind.
-Unknown
Iron
rusts from disuse,
stagnant water loses its purity and in cold,
water becomes frozen; even so does inaction
sap the vigors of the mind.
--Leonardo da Vinci
Things which matter most
must never be at the mercy
of things
which matter least.
--Unknown
And while the mirror reflection shows me all the things that may
pass me by, I choose to stand alone and wonder if they will pass me
before I die.
-- "Misery" by The Samples
To keep something, you must care for it-more,
you must understand
what kind of care it requires.
--Dorothy Parker
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for
it, but what they become by it.
--John Ruskin
Leave undone whatever you
hesitate to do.
--Yoshida Kenko
It's nice to be important,
but it's more important to be nice.
-Unknown
Everybody dies, but not everyone truly LIVES!
--W. Wallace in Braveheart
Within my sensitivity lies my strength.
-unknown
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves
-C.G. Jung
The mark of a good action is
that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
You cannot teach a crab to
walk straight.
--Aristophanes
The education of the will is
the object of our existence.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You come with nothing.
You die with nothing.
What have you lost?
Nothing!
--Monty Python
What kind of person an
individual becomes is dependent
in very large measure upon the kind of world
we create for him to grow up in.
--Arthur W. Combs
Integrity is not what a man says but how he lives his life
-Unknown
Learn from the mistakes of
others.
You can’t live long enough to
make them all yourself.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is
to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Penn, William
Anger is only one letter
short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If
he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
The "silly question" is the first intimation of some
totally new development.
--Whitehead, Alfred North
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
--Samuel Palmer
Of all sad words of toungue
or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!"
--John Greenleaf Whittier
Time will explain it all. He is a talker,
and needs no questioning
before he speaks.
--Euripides
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
--Elliot, George
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
--Friederich Nietzsche
In the adolescent with character the whole emotional life is
conditioned by what he conceives to be good, by his system of values, and by the
principles and ideals that govern his style of life.
--Alexander Schneiders
It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it,
than to receive one, and
not deserve it!
--Mark Twain
There is a time in the life of every problem
when it is big enough to see,
yet small enough to solve.
--Mike Leavitt
Ten
Rules Kids Won't Learn In School
Life is not fair. Get
used to it. The average teenager uses the phrase "It's not
fair" 86 times a day.
The real world won't care
as much about your self-esteem as your school does. This may come as a
shock.
Sorry, but you won't make
$40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice
president or have a car phone, either. You may even have to wear a
uniform that doesn't have a designer label.
If you think your teacher
is tough, wait until you get a boss.
Flipping burgers is not
beneath dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger
flipping. They called it opportunity.
It's not your parents
fault if you mess up. You're responsible! This is the flip side of
"It's my life" and "You're not my boss."
Before you were born your
parents were not boring. They got that way paying your bills and
listening to you.
Life is not divided into
semesters. And you don't get summers off. Not even spring break. You are
expected to show up every day for eight hours; and you don't get a new
life every 10 weeks.
Smoking does not make you
look cool. Watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what
you look like to anyone over 20.
Your school may be "outcome-based," but life is not. In some schools, you're given as many as times as you want to get the answer right. Standards are set low enough so everyone can meet them. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life—as you will find out.
Moment of inner freedom when the mind is opened & the infinite
universe is revealed & the soul is left to wander dazed & confused
searching here & there for teachers & friends.
--Jim Morrison
I N S T R U C T I O N S
F O R L I F E
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try, and those who afraid that you will
succeed.
--Ray Goforth, Human Rights Activist
Real learning comes when the competitive spirit has ceased.
--Krishnamurti J.
"I Wish You Could
See"
I wish you could know what it is like to search a burning bedroom for trapped children, flames rolling above your head, your palms and knees burning as you crawl, the floor sagging under our weight as the kitchen below you burns.
I wish you could comprehend a wife’s horror at 3 in the morning as I check her husband of 40 years for a pulse and find none. I start CPR anyway, hoping to bring him back, knowing intuitively it is too late. But wanting his wife and family to know everything possible was done to try to save his life.
I wish you knew the unique smell of burning insulation, the taste of soot-filled mucus, the feeling of intense heat through your turnout gear, the sound of flames crackling, the eeriness of being able to see absolutely nothing in dense smoke-sensations that I’ve become too familiar with.
I wish you could understand how it feels to go to work in the morning after having spent most of the night, hot and soaking wet at a multiple alarm fire.
I wish you could read my mind as I respond to a building fire "Is this a false alarm or a working fire? How is the building constructed? What hazards await me? Is anyone trapped?" Or to an EMS call, "What is wrong with the patient? Is it minor or life-threatening? Is the caller really in distress or is he waiting for us with a 2x4 or a gun?"
I wish you could be in the emergency room as a doctor pronounces dead the beautiful five-year old girl that I have been trying to save during the past 25 minutes. Who will never go on her first date or say the words, "I love you Mommy" again.
I wish you could know the frustration I feel in the cab of the engine or my personal vehicle, the driver with his foot pressing down hard on the pedal, my arm tugging again and again at the air horn chain, as you fail to yield the right-of-way at an intersection or in traffic.
When you need us, however, your first comment upon our arrival will be, "It took you forever to get here!"
I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a girl of teenage years from the remains of her automobile. "What if this was my sister, my girlfriend or a friend? What were her parents’ reaction going to be when they opened the door to find a police officer with hat in hand?"
I wish you could know how it feels to walk in the back door and greet my parents and family, not having the heart to tell them that I nearly did not come back from the last call.
I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally, and sometimes physically, abuse us or belittle what I do, or as they express their attitudes of "It will never happen to me."
I wish you could realize the physical, emotional and mental drain or missed meals, lost sleep and forgone social activities, in addition to all the tragedy my eyes have seen.
I wish you could know the brotherhood and self-satisfaction of helping save a life or preserving someone’s property, or being able to be there in time of crisis, or creating order from total chaos.
I wish you could understand what it feels like to have a little boy tugging at your arm and asking, "Is Mommy okay?" Not even being able to look in his eyes without tears from your own and not knowing what to say. Or to have to hold back a long time friend who watches his buddy having rescue breathing done on him as they take him away in the ambulance.
You know all along he did not have his seat belt on. A sensation that I have become too familiar with.
Unless you have lived with this kind of life, you will never truly understand or appreciate who I am, we are, or what our job really means to us.
..I wish you could though.
--author unknown
Attitude is
Everything
Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say: When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!” He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”
Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.
“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.
“Yes, it is,” Michael said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.”
I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied. “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
“The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon to be born daughter, “ Michael replied. “Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”
“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.
Michael continued, “...the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘he’s a dead man.” I knew I needed to take action.”
“What did you do?” I asked.
“Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Michael. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. “Yes,” I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply.
I took a deep breath and yelled, “Gravity.”
Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, after all, is everything.
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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