From the Quote of the Week Files; May 27, 2014

Attitude is the theme of this week's Quote!! After all they say that ATTITUDE is EVERYTHING! Enjoy!

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A nasty day! A nasty day!
'Twas thus I heard a critic say
Because the skies were bleak and gray—
And yet it somehow seemed to me
The day was all that it should be.
I looked it very closely o'er;
Its hours still were twenty-four,
With sixty minutes each—no less—
For deeds of good and helpfulness;
And every second full of chance
To give the day significance;
And every hour full of growth
For everybody but the sloth—
I couldn't see it quite that way,
For though the skies were bleak and gray
The day itself, it seemed to me,
Was all a day could rightly be.

John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)

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A Recycle Quote of the Week Classic....

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of my attitude on my life.  Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.  It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstance, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.  It will make or break a company, a church, a home.  The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  We cannot change our past – we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.  I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90 % how I react to it.  And so it is with you – we are in charge of our attitudes.”

           

Author: Unknown

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How is your Attitude?  Take the short Attitude Assessment! See attached.

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

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Special Edition Quote of the Week; Memorial Day 2014

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;

Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

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It is Memorial Day in America.

Every year, on the last Monday in May, Americans observe Memorial Day. Originally called "Decoration Day," Memorial Day is a holiday that commemorates those who have died in battle while serving in the U.S. armed forces. We are reminded that they died so that we could live and continue to cherish the things they loved .

The Quote of the Week honors those who gave their lives for our future freedoms and the acknowledge those men and women who serve in our armed forces today.
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"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"

Kohima Epitaph
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Links to the history of Memorial Day and the Kohima Epitaph...

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyseneca/memorial.htm

http://www.burmastar.org.uk/epitaph.htm
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you.

From the Quote of the Week Files; May 19, 2014

What goes around, comes around. That is the theme of this week's quote...Karma! Enjoy!

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“If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.” 

John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

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Zigong asked: ‘Is there any single word that could guide one's entire life?’ The Master said: ‘Should it not be reciprocity? What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.’

Confucius

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An Example of Karma...

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Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL day, wherever this may find you!

The Importance of Kindness

From the Quote of the Week Files; May 12, 2014

Welcome All Quote of the Week Members.  It is now time to get away from the all important details of day-to-day life, take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, kick off your shoes and enjoy reading today's quote on 

​Adversity!

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"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."

Arthur Golden,Memoirs of a Geisha

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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...​

Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.

Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word.

The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her he asked. "Darling, what do you see?"

"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.

He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. She humbly asked. "What does it mean Father?"

He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.

The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.

The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

"Which are you?" he asked his daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?" Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength? Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or a layoff have you become hardened and stiff. Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?

Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water; the thing that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better.

If you are like the coffee bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and make things better around you.

How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

Author Unknown

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

From the Quote of the Week Files; May 5, 2014

Welcome to the Quote of the Week which has been serving the psychosocial needs of its members since 1984.
This week's Quote Theme: Acceptance!

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Another life's lessons that I have been slow to pick up on! ;-)
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“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”

Michael J. Fox
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”

Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

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Wishing you a most BEAUTIFUL day, wherever this may find you!​

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