From the Quote of the Week Files, First Day of Summer!

Ahhhh. first day of summer..

...and to celebrate, the Quote of the Week is featuring, not only a quote, but also a poem, lyrics to a song, a question (with a link) and a request to share your top 5 summer songs!. Happy Summer Everybody!

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The Quote..

That beautiful season the Summer!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Poem...

A something in a summer's Day
As slow her flambeaux burn away
Which solemnizes me.

A something in a summer's noon -
A depth - an Azure - a perfume -
Transcending ecstasy.

And still within a summer's night
A something so transporting bright
I clap my hands to see -

Then veil my too inspecting face
Lets such a subtle - shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me -

The wizard fingers never rest -
The purple brook within the breast
Still chafes it narrow bed -

Still rears the East her amber Flag -
Guides still the sun along the Crag
His Caravan of Red -

So looking on - the night - the morn
Conclude the wonder gay -
And I meet, coming thro' the dews
Another summer's Day!

Emily Dickinson
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The Song...

In the Summer Time

Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh...

In the summertime when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find

Mungo Jerry
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The Question..

Is there a cure for the Summer Time Blues?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wu_v7NvTI
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By the way, here are my top 5 all time favorite summer songs...

Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Sunny Afternoon--The Kinks
Vacation--The Go-Gos
Walkin' on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
Anything by the Beach Boys (That is 6, sorry)

What are yours?
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Wishing you a most beautiful summer, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; June 14, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week; Your First Aid for Pessimism! The Reality of your life is the theme for this week's quote!
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“People talk about the reality of their life as if it is important. And we want you to understand, it’s only the temporary indicator. Do you go to the gas station-your gas gauge is on empty-do you go to the gas station and look at your gas gauge in horror? “How did this happen? Why, why, why did this happen to me?” Do you lay your head on the steering wheel and just sob? “Oh, look what it’s come to. I’m finished. I’ve lived all of this life, and look where I am.” Or do you just fill up.”

Esther & Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"And then the day came when the risk to remain tight inside the bud was greater than the risk to blossom."

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

Happy Birthday Dad

Today, June 8th would have been my father's 87th birthday. He passed away this past September and my sisters and I were blessed to have him as our father for those many years.


Here he is with my mother around 1947 or 1948 out in Long Island. They met in Germany during World War II. She was a refugee from Estonia and he was a Lieutenant from Brooklyn, NY. They were married just a month shy of 50 years and she passed away in 1995.


We miss them both very, very much.



“Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survive.”

Veronica Chambers

From the Quote of the Week Files, June 7, 2010

Every once in a while, someone has something that is truly meaningful, important, apropos, interesting, irreverent, or just plain funny and my job is to present them to you as the Quote of the Week.
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"Our time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. "

Steve Jobs
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;A
nd all good things are yours.

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

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

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!

From the Quote of the Week Files; April 26, 2010

Have you forgotten your own best advice? No Problem! Rediscover it right here with the Quote of the Week!
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"I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought, but my raft was actually a little rowboat. Then, after some time I rowed my little boat into deeper water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends and loved ones, and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on the bank, in fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived."

B D Gulledge
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."

T.S. Eliot
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; April 19, 2010

Welcome to the Quote of the Week! The daily source for nurturing your mind, body & spirit. Enjoy this short but meaningful quote on goodness.
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"Infinite goodness has wide arms."

Dante
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"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files: April 12, 2010

Welcome to The Quote of the Week, your weekly source for nurturing your mind, body & spirit. There are 2 quotes this week covering a range of issues including making mistakes and forgetting about perfection, living more fully, the shortness of life and being in love (Whew, all that in 2 quotes).
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"Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullsh*t."

From the movie Moonstruck: What Nicolas Cage's character Ronny Cammareri says to Loretta played by Cher
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"The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded." Henry Miller
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A Recycle Quote of the Week Classic...

"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own."

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, April 5, 2010

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 this week's quote on the best things in life.
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"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."

Robert Louis Stevenson
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

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