From the Quote of the Week Files, May 31, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! The daily source for nurturing your mind, body & spirit. This week's quote is the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. There is a link to a reading of the poem by a young Dennis Hopper that I think you will enjoy.
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If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling
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A link to a reading of "If" by a young Dennis Hopper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlfnm9gV52w&feature
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it."

Horace Rutledge
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 24, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week ~ Serving the Psycho-Spritual Needs of People on the Go since 1984!
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"If someone says: 'That’s impossible,' you should understand it as: 'According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that’s very unlikely.'”

Paul Buchheit (I think)
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything."

Albert Schweitzer
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 17, 2010

Who says you can't be positive in today's busy universe?? The Quote of the Week says YES!
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"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Ideas are like fish.

If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.

Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything.

Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch."

David Lynch
Movie Producer; Director and Author
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week File; May 10, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week, Your State-of-the-Art Life Improvement Program! This week's quotes come from the movie, The Bucket List. Enjoy!
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"Our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls."

"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you."

Carter Chambers, (Movie quote) from the movie The Bucket List
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A Recycled Quote of the Week...

"If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy."

Author Unknown
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From the Quote of the Week Files; May 3, 2010

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A Story of Kindness...

Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian writer, tells of the time he was walking down the street and passed a beggar. Tolstoy reached into his pocket to give the beggar some money, but his pocket was empty. Tolstoy turned to the man and said, "I'm sorry, my brother, but I have nothing to give." The beggar brightened and said, "You have given me more than I asked for --- you have called me brother."

From Max LucadoGrace for the Moment
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"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."

Dag Hammarskjold
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!