From the Quote of the Week Files, December 17, 2012

Happy Monday Everybody!   Welcome to the Quote of the Week! 
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“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

Anne Frank
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A Very Recent Quote of the Week Classic (May 10, 2012)

"You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July'
Cause baby you're a firework

Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh
As you shoot across the sky

Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, oh
You're gonna leave 'em falling down

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through"

Katy Perry; "Firework" Happy Monday!!!!  
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I introduced that quote/song as a Silly Song with a BIG meaning.  But after stumbling across this video, it is apparent that this song is more than just a song especially for a young lady named Jodi DiPiazza .  Enjoy this rendition!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QX-xToQI34I
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!!!
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The Quote of the Week is bought to you by allcelebtalk.com.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QX-xToQI34I

From the Quote of the Week Files; December 10, 2012

"An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him."

“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”

“Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.”

“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”
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All the above quotes are by Zig Ziglar, a motivation speaker and leader who recently died at the age of 86.
I was an avid listener and reader to his teachings and they never failed to challenge my perspective as well as put a smile on my face!  In fact, I still use some of his adages in my own facilitation/consulting practice.
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Here are a few more of his insightful quotes…

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”

“You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.”

“People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.”

“There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.”

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

I’m devoting this column to his memory by sharing a few of his insightful quotes:

“I’ll see you at the Top!” (I like this one! ;-) )
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, December 3, 2012

Pour yourself a cup of ambition as you sit back and read the Quote of the Week!
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“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”

C. JoyBell C.
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic (something on the lighter side)...

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

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

Quote of the Week; November 26, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week. Your presence, exactly as is at this very moment, is greatly appreciated.
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“All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' In The Sun,
Talkin' 'Bout The Things
They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...
But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All Ran Away And Hid
From One Little Did.”

Shel Silverstein
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Are you concerned about how to have a great Holiday season?   Perhaps these two Recycled Quote of the Week Classics by Debbie Ford may help

"As the holidays approach, it's so essential to prepare yourself - body, mind and soul - for the faster pace of the coming weeks. This is the time to take extra special care.  While you're giving to others, make this the time to give to yourself as well.

"If you were going to make this the best holiday season ever, how would you do it?  It won't happen for most people, because most people won't have that as their #1 intention.  And it's unlikely that you'll have the life-changing holidays that you could have if you don't create a powerful intent."
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; November 19, 2012

“This is your life. Do what you want and do it often.
If you don't like something, change it.
If you don't like your job, quit.
If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV.
If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.
Stop over-analysing, life is simple.
All emotions are beautiful.
When you eat, appreciate every last bite.
Life is simple.
Open your heart, mind and arms to new things and people, we are united in our differences.
Ask the next person you see what their passion is and share your inspiring dream with them.
Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.
Some opportunities only come once, seize them.
Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.
Life is short, live your dream and wear your passion.”

Holstee Manifesto
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Welcome to the Quote of the Week!!  Your presence, exactly as is at this very moment, is greatly appreciated.

I've been seeing the above quote (a manifesto really) around the internet lately and it seems to have become the new "Just Do It" approach. It was created by brothers Dave and Mike Radparvar and their friend Fabian Pfortmuller as they put on paper their ideals as they started their new business, Holstee.  Even though the business deals with consumer goods, the  the manifesto poster is now one of Holstee’s best-selling items and has been translated into 12 languages.  Hmm... It makes me think... What is my manifesto?  What is yours?
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Holstee Maifesto: A video version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QDmt_t6umoY#!
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!!!!

From the Quote of the Week Files, November 12, 2012

"When you start lookin' around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it."  From the movie, Old Yeller.

The above line is the ending sentence from last weeks quote and as the hardships of Hurricane Sandy (homes destroyed, devastated communities, no power or water, fuel shortages and limited transportation) are still felt, I have been lucky to have witnessed "the good that started to take place of the bad' through the kindness and generosity of volunteers and individual citizens that just want to help. So the Quote of the Week is dedicated to those KIND STRANGERS with BIG HEARTS!
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"Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart."

Elizabeth Andrew

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Mark Twain

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” 

Aesop
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A most recent Quote of the Week Classic...

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

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

From the Quote of the Weeks Files; Novemeber 5, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week. As most of you know, the northeast was pounded last week by Hurricane Sandy.

Fortunately, I was very lucky as I was not impacted that much but I am still at a loss of words as I try to process the enormous amount of destruction that this hurricane wrought to the homes of family and friends and to the surrounding towns near where I live. And as I watch the news, It is impossible to imagine the devastation brought to so many lives throughout the northeast.

A continuing lesson for me is the acceptance of that I can only control so much in life ~ my actions and reactions. Everything else, such as nature, is up to the powers that Be.
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"That was rough.... Thing to do now is try and forget it.... I guess I don't quite mean that.  It's not a thing you can forget.  Maybe not even a thing you want to forget.... Life's like that sometimes... Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin' the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted.  But it's not all like that.  A lot of it's mighty fine, and you can't afford to waste the good part frettin' about the bad.  That makes it all bad.... Sure, I know - sayin' it's one thing and feelin' it's another.  But I'll tell you a trick that's sometimes a big help.  When you start lookin' around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it."  

From one of my favorite movie when I was a kid...Old Yeller
(I've been finding a lot of good these past few days!) 
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not... nothing is more common than unsuccessful people will talent.
Genius will not... unrewarded genius is almost legendary.
Education will not.... the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge
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Wishing you a most beautiful day!

From the Quote of the Weeks Files; Novemeber 5, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week. As most of you know, the northeast was pounded last week by Hurricane Sandy.

Fortunately, I was very lucky as I was not impacted that much but I am still at a loss of words as I try to process the enormous amount of destruction that this hurricane wrought to the homes of family and friends and to the surrounding towns near where I live. And as I watch the news, It is impossible to imagine the devastation brought to so many lives throughout the northeast.

A continuing lesson for me is the acceptance of that I can only control so much in life ~ my actions and reactions. Everything else, such as nature, is up to the powers that Be.
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"That was rough.... Thing to do now is try and forget it.... I guess I don't quite mean that.  It's not a thing you can forget.  Maybe not even a thing you want to forget.... Life's like that sometimes... Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin' the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted.  But it's not all like that.  A lot of it's mighty fine, and you can't afford to waste the good part frettin' about the bad.  That makes it all bad.... Sure, I know - sayin' it's one thing and feelin' it's another.  But I'll tell you a trick that's sometimes a big help.  When you start lookin' around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it."  

From one of my favorite movie when I was a kid...Old Yeller
(I've been finding a lot of good these past few days!) 
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not... nothing is more common than unsuccessful people will talent.
Genius will not... unrewarded genius is almost legendary.
Education will not.... the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge
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Wishing you a most beautiful day!

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 29, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week!  What would YOU like to say about your life when you turn 95?  Well, Quote of the Week member Mike Pennella's father knows as he turns 95 today!!!!  Best wishes on a landmark birthday!
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"Its a good place to be and I am in a good place in my life.  I exercise, I pray, I read, I write, I play piano, and I count my blessings. I am ninety-five and counting."

C. Robert Pennella
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A recylced Quote of the Week Classic...

"A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life:  maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves.  A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 22, 2102

Welcome to the Quote of the Week!

Are you dealing with unavoidable change? Are you coming into a new and different world and have trouble coping? Have you reached a turning point in your life on how you want to live the rest of your life? Do you need and want to take charge of your own choices?  

Then perhaps these lines (quotes) from the movie, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel can give you the insight you are looking for.  (I obviously saw the movie and enjoyed these upbeat aphorisms and quotable quotes.
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“This is a new and different world.  The challenge is to cope with it.  Not just cope but thrive.”

“All we know about the future is that it will be different.”

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing.”

“The only real failure is the failure to try. And the measure of success is how well we cope.”

“Most things don’t work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.”

“The light, the colours, the smiles. The way the people see life as a gift, a privilege — and not a right.”

”The only real measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. We get up in the morning and do our best.”

“Everything will be all right in the end, so if it is not all right, then it is not the end.”
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 15, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week ~ Serving the Psycho-Spritual Needs of People on the Go since 1984 (Quote of the Week member Phyllis reminded me that the year is probably earlier if you count answering machine messages :-))

After spending a wonderful hiking with family and friends at Mohonk Mountain House, this week's quote is on Nature. By the way, our mantra for the day was "Think Outside; No Box Required"
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“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.”

John Burroughs
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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; October 8, 2012

Welcome back to the Quote of the Week.  This week we feature 2 quotes that have a common theme!  Can you discover it?
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"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."

English Proverb
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"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!f

From the Quote of the Week Files, October 1, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week!!  Two quotes today both by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Why Mozart quotes?  Well I happen to be in Vienna, Austria and this is his birthplace.  Enjoy!
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” 

“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.” 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

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