Morning Coffe Quotes for 1/30/17

Great Smoky Mountains National Park - photo by Cindy Caraway

 “The shallower the brook, the more it babbles.”
— Indonesian Proverb

“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other all to gain.”
— Diane de Poitiers

“Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.”
— Ron Nessen

“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”
— Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss

“I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.”
— Robert Brault

“Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.”
— Susan Scarf Merrell

“People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.”
— Ben Franklin

“Two thoughts cannot occupy the mind at the same time, so the choice is ours whether or not our thoughts will be constructive or destructive.”
— Betty Sachelli

“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
— Christian N. Bovee

“Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.”
— Robert Heinlein

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
— Og Mandino

“Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.”
— Charles F. Kettering

“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
— Thomas Fuller

“Where there is strife, there is pride,
but wisdom is found in those who take advice.”
— Proverbs 13:10

“The uncommitted life is not worth living. We either believe in something or we don't ... Commitment is willingness to stand up and be counted. It is a human must for young and old, for black and white, for Christian, Moslem and Buddhist. It is skill plus goodwill. It is a thoughtful decision on the part of an individual to participate passionately in the events of his time ... Commitment will bring sadness as well as joy, loneliness as well as friendship, but whichever it is, it brings excitement and demands the use of all a person's resources. Even beyond this, it increases our capacity for the generous enjoyment of life and colors all we do with a concern for others ... With commitment, we can move mountains. Without it we cannot move a molehill.”
— Pearl S. Buck

“Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.”
— Timothy Keller

“You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy, because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.”
— Jean Kerr

“Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching.”
— Ben Jonson

*Just so you know, I cannot take credit for selecting these quotes. They are selected and distributed weekly by Bob Varga of Johns Creek, GA and have been since 1997. These are forwarded to me from a family member. I enjoy sharing them with you here but I will find out where you need to go to subscribe to his weekly email and post the link for you. Enjoy!

Morning Coffee Quotes

Photo by Cindy Caraway

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
— Amy Carmichael

"It is in the shelter of each other that people live."
— Irish Proverb

"It is possible to proceed perfectly logically from an inaccurate premise to an inaccurate and unfortunate conclusion."
— Donald Rumsfeld

"Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does no one else."
— Unknown

"No man is a failure who has friends."
— Clarence Oddbody (George's angel) in 'It's a Wonderful Life'

"It is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count."
— R.C. Sproul

"The only thing you should ever quit is giving up!”
— Steve Pfiester

"Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding."
— Chinese Proverb

"We have put so much emphasis on avoiding evil that we have become virtually blind to the endless opportunities for doing good. We have defined holiness through what we separate ourselves from rather than what we give ourselves to. I am convinced that the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live."
— Erwin McManus, 'Seizing Your Divine Moment'

"Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted."
— Buddha

"Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.  But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.  To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain.  What's your excuse?
— Vera Nazarian, 'The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration'

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis

"Never quit - least of all out of fears, anger, opinions of others, past failures or self-pity."
— Coe D. Behr

Morning Coffee Quotes

Christmas Lights at Lincoln Park Zoo (2012) - photo by Cindy Caraway

“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”
— Randy Pausch

“Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.”
— Norman Vincent Peale

“Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.”
— Frank Crane

“Willing is not enough, we must do.”
— Johann Von Goethe

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
— Sydney J. Harris

“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
— Steve Martin

“Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.”
— Stefan Zweig

“How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?”
— Ken Blanchard

“The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.”
— Publilius Syrus

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
— Soren Kierkegaard

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude.”
— A.A. Milne, 'Winnie-the-Pooh'

“It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.”
— George Eliot

“Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.”
— Mitch Albom

“First, imagine taking the potentially regret-producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.”
— Wayne Dyer

“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
— Erica Jong

“Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.”
— William Shakespeare

“Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.”
— John O'Donohue

“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”
— Gandhi

“It's not too late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.”
— Morrie Schwartz

Morning Coffee Quotes

Photo by Cindy Caraway

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
— Charles Dickens

“If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.”
— Yiddish Proverb

“Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.”
— Salvador Dali

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
— Max Lucado

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
― George Carlin

“Anger is one letter short of danger.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
— C.S. Lewis

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.”
— W.T. Purkiser

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.”
— John L. Mason

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
— Saint Thomas Aquinas

“There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.”
— Robert Brault

“In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.”
— Peter F. Drucker

“It’s better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
— James Thurber

Morning Coffee Quotes

Laughing Buddha - photo by Cindy Caraway

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.”
— Charles Kuralt

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.”
— Evan Esar

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
— Victor Hugo

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.”
— Robert Heinlein

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.”
— Samuel Johnson

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”
— Heraclitus

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”
— Will Durant

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
— Thomas Jefferson

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that, although we have a right to be offensive and disrespectful, we choose to be polite and respectful of our fellow man.”
— Coe D. Behr

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.”
— Thomas Fuller

We never lose our demons. We only learn to live above them.”
— The Ancient One, Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.”
— Fran Lebowitz

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
— M. Scott Peck