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Attitude
adjusters are short quotes that
cause the reader to stop and reflect for a moment and maybe even see things
just a bit differently from then on.
I
thought it might be a good idea to gather a bunch of these in one place. We all
have a few and it would be nice to know where to find some more when ever we
felt the need. If you would be generous enough to submit your
favorites. I will do my best to organize them in a useful fashion on
this page.
Send Yours:
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THANKS!
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Last Update:
March 15, 2010
Here
are a few on my favorites:
Some
folks are forever telling us the glass is half full.
Others that it is half empty.
Did it ever occur to any of these folks that
maybe the glass is too big?
George Carlin
We're
so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget
that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what
it's all about.
Joseph Campbell
He
who knows he has enough....is rich. Lao
Tzu
There
is more to life than increasing it's speed. Gandhi
What
the caterpillar calls the end of the world...the master calls a butterfly. Bach
The
ego climber is like a instrument that's out of adjustment...he moves too fast
or too slow for conditions and when he talks, his talk is forever about
somewhere else,
something else. He is here, but not here. He rejects the here, is unhappy with
it, wants to be farther up the trail, but when he gets there he will be just as
unhappy, because it will be here. What he wants is all around him, but he
doesn't want that because it is all around him. Every step is an effort, both
physically and spiritually because he imagines his goal to be external and
distant.
Robert Pirsig
from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
What good can I do today?
Benjamin Franklin's question to
himself every morning
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POSTED: March 15, 2010
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at...but a manner of traveling."
from Josef Giger
POSTED: March 1, 2010
“When in doubt, I go and look at the stone cutter, hammering away at his rock.
Perhaps a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it.
Then, at the hundred-first blow, it will split in two.
And I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had been done before.
” Jacob Riis
from Caleb Sanders
POSTED: October 19, 2009
“Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy”
Benjamin Franklin
POSTED
“Fall down six times stand up seven”
POSTED
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go
instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Muriel Strode
POSTED
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets
of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the
human spirit.”
Helen Keller
POSTED
My philosophy on riding.
"Riding
a motorcycle is not about speed.
It's all about seat time.
The faster I ride, the less seat time I have...I like seat time."
from
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A
wise man makes new mistakes every day.
From Bill Young
POSTED
Dream Like
you will live Forever;
Live like you will die tomorrow!
from Kevin Luthenauer
POSTED
Those who stand for nothing, fall for
anything.
Alexander
Hamilton
We cannot become what we need to be by
remaining what we are.
Max DuPree
Go as far as you can see; when you get
there, you'll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle
Most
men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in
them.
Henry David Thoreau
Manyof us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if
we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
Alexander
Woollcott
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
above from David
Swanson
POSTED
Things aren't
necessarily right or wrong... its' just that some stuff isn't a good
idea! Fred Casey RIP 2002.
More is better... but the thought of More is even Better !
Rider advice: How
are they gonna kill me at this intersection?
I have always approached intersections with this in mind and ,believe me, it has saved me time and again!
Happy Riding. Above from Dave D.
POSTED
Blessed are the flexible for they will never be bent out of shape.
from Cindy O'Neal
Love while you're here,
Time passes on,
At the drop of a tear,
Every ones gone.
from David Whitney
People are constantly striving for balance in their lives. I for one welcome being pushed off of my center on occasion.
Because if we are always in balance then we aren't moving.
Real growth only occurs when we are off balance and must respond.
from Tom Scalora
POSTED
One doesn’t discover new lands without
consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide
from
POSTED
Do
what you can, with what you have, where you are. Teddy Roosevelt
The
end result of protecting fools from the results of their folly is to populate
the earth with fools. Herbert Spencer
two above from Franklyn Neely
POSTED
The summit of
happiness is reached when aperson is ready to be what
he is. Desiderius Erasmus, scholar
Youcan live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know
more about other people thanyou know about yourself. Beryl
Markham, aviator
two above from Lew Walters
POSTED
I glad my
past was a springboard…..not a hammock.
from Dean W.
POSTED
POSTED
Don't
be humble; you're not that great.
Golda Meier
Live
each day as if it were your last 'cause, one of these days, you're gonna be right. Ray Charles
from John Zillman
POSTED
May 24, 2003
It's
not where you're at that'sthe problem
.....
It's where you're at about where you're at!
fromMike
Elia
POSTED
APRIL 2, 2003
I
don't want to hurry it. That itself is a poisonous twentieth-century
attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about
it and want to get on to other things. Robert Pirsig
POSTED
February 25, 2003
If
life was logical....men would be riding women's bikes!
from Dick Hughes
POSTED
February 17, 2003
The
man who trades freedom for security does not deserve,
nor will he receive, either one.
Benjamin Franklin
spotted in an editorial by Dave Searle of Motorcycle Consumer News
Every
morning as I look intothe mirror,
I think that there is the only person who can make a difference today.
Submitted by: Lyle R. McKean
POSTED
February 8, 2003
It
is better to wearout.....Than to rust out!!
from Jim Houston
POSTED
Instructions
for Life
Take into account that great love and great
achievements involve great risk.
When you lose...don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three R's....respect for self...respect for other
sand...responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good and honorable life. You'll be able to enjoy it a second
time when you think back.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation of your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't
bring up the past.
Share knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your
need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get
it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
from K. A. M.
Information isabundant....
wisdom is scarce
The druids from Harry Goebel
POSTED
To
be without some of thethings you want is an indispensable
part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
POSTED
Life is never what it's cut out to be. It's
a whole lot more!!! Anonymous
If you put 100% into life, you will get back
100%. If you give any less, then it's your own fault when life passes you
by.
Jim Edwards
POSTED
Like
it or not, at this moment you are where you want to be.
The evidence indicates that you would rather be in this situation than pay the
price to change. from Charlie Cartmell
A
positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.
Life
isn't about finding your self.
Life is about creating yourself.
two above from Rodney Smith
POSTED
When
you realize that you are not being listened too. Shut up.
from Aaron
Mannheim
POSTED
"Some
people confuse breathing....with living.
from Wayne
Archer
POSTED
Yesterday
is a cancelled check,
Tomorrow a promissory note,
Today is cash!
from Russell Ray
POSTED
Sign
at car dealership:
Why is there
time to do a job over,
But never enough time to do it right the first time.
and, my dad's
favorite:
If bullshit was gold, we would all be millionaires!
from
POSTED
Never
argue with an idiot.
They drag you down to their level,
then beat you with experience.
from Quentin Neill
POSTED
It's no good to know more, unless you do more with what you already
know!
Phebe Hershelman
POSTED
March 10, 2002
Life
On earth
Is a market trip
Whether We Fill our baskets
Or not.
When Our time Is Up
We Go Home
Sing as though no one is listening
Dance as though no one is watching
Work like you don't need the money
POSTED
February 26, 2002
I'm
lost on this road again
Find myself without a friend
High in my lonely sky
I find that I have flown too high to land
....Too high to land
How do you get this HIGH?
.....I REMEMBER!
Jesse Colin Young
POSTED
Happiness isnot a destination....but a mode of travel.
from Dr. George Parsons
POSTED
If your not living on the edge....your taking up too much room.
from Dave Grimm
POSTED
December 18, 2001
Outside
of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Glen
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out....it's the grain of sand
in your shoe.
Robert Service
If you want something that you've never had before, you've got to do
something you've never done before.
POSTED
August 26, 2001
Everyone
wants a piece of the pie.
No one wants to help build the stove.
--Wide Bill Jincks
from Patrick Narcisi
POSTED
Sometimes I find you have to work real hard to enjoy
riding in the rain.
slow talking Harley rider from
Life is too short?....It's the
longest thing you'll ever do.
POSTED
May 28, 2001
Age
comes with wisdom not theother way around.
from Donald J.
Smith
Age without
wisdom.....it happens.
POSTED
May 5, 2001
When your views on the world and your intellect are
being challenged and you
begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you've detected that
is threatening you current model of the world or some aspect of it, pay
attention. You are about to learn something.
Unknown source.
The real
cycle your working on is a cycle called yourself.
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by
Robert Pirsig.
The only
thing, I thought, was to lead, as best one could, the life one thought was
right, and let others decide whether it answered their needs also.
From Riding High by Ted Simon.
All goes
onward and upward . . .
and nothing collapses
and to die is different from what
anyone supposed, and luckier.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Four above from Matthew Lane
POSTED April
2, 2001
Reality isfor those with no imagination.
from Crol
POSTED
Any Coward
can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog.
But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed….
What kind of a man would live where there is no
daring?
And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure?
Is there a better way to die?
Charles Lindbergh, from
Not knowing how far the truth is....we seek it far away.
Zen Master Hakuin
POSTED
November 4, 2000
When
driving on four wheels you are a spectator of the world around you,
when riding on two you are a participant.
"Never
argue with an idiot. People might not be able to tell the difference"
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for
scars"
from F.M.Carroll
POSTED
September 15, 2000
Growing
old is inevitable; growing up is optional.
Not
all who wander are lost.
submitted by Claudia R.M. Christensen
POSTED
Life is
10%what you make it and 90% how you take it.--Ira
Gershwin
from Lu Steger
"AMAN'S
CHARACTER IS HIS FATE"....CONFUCIOUS
It does not
require many words to speak the truth. Chief Joseph, Nez Pierce
You become what you think about. -- The Greatest Secret
2 above from Michael Benson click Memoranda.for
more
POSTED
July 29, 2000
Instructions
for Life:
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all your actions
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of
luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll
be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with
the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been
before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love
for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to
get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
"We're
not commissioned to change the world.
However, we are expected to change the world around us."
Gary Dean Rollins
POSTED
June20, 2000
"Its never too late to have a happy childhood."
Marc B. Lipton, Ph.D., M.P.A.
Clinical Psychologist
POSTED
April 2, 2000
People
will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did, but
People will never forget how you made them feel.
God
answered: "That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow
up, and then long to be children again. That they lose their
health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.
That by thinking anxiously about the future they forget the present, such that
they live neither for the present or the future. That they live as if they will
never die, and they die as if they had never lived."
To learn - that they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to
let themselves be loved.
To learn - that what is most valuable is not what they have in their lives, but
whom they have in their lives.
To learn - that it is not good to compare themselves to others. All will be
judged individually on their own merits, not as a group on a comparison basis!
To learn - that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but is one who
needs the least.
To learn - that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons
we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.
To learn - that there are persons who love them dearly, but simply do not know
how to express or show their feelings.
To learn - that money can buy everything but happiness.
To learn - that two people can look at the same thing... And see it totally
differently.
To learn - that a true friend is someone who knows everything about him or
her...and likes them anyway.
To learn - to forgive by practicing forgiveness, and
that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by others, but that they
have to forgive themselves.
POSTED
March 20, 2000
Imagine there is a bank that credits your Account each
morning with $86,400. It carries
over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the
balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out ALL OF
IT, of course!!!!
Each of us has such a bank. It's name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off,
as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries
over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for
you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's
deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow."
You must live in the present on today's Deposits. Invest it so as to get from
it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today.
POSTED
March 7, 2000
"In
the opinion that there is a God, there are difficulties;
but in the contrary opinion there are absurdities."
Voltaire
POSTED
February 25, 2000
In
One Minute
I Can Change My Attitude
And In That Minute
I Can Change My
Entire Day!
POSTED
February 19, 2000
Blessed
are those with noexpectations, for they shall not be
disappointed.
Life is hard.
Life goes on.
Expect nothing.
Blame no one.
Do something. Trust God.
Three
above from Shery Stewart
POSTED
February 12, 2000
"In
any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best
thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing".
Theodore Roosevelt
"Preach
the gospel at all times, and when necessary use words".
St. Francis
"Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".
Martin Luther King, JR.
"I'm a
great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have ofit".
Thomas Jefferson
"If
passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." Ben Franklin
"There
is no God higher than truth." Mahatma Gandhi
"Everything
should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler".
Albert Einstein
"The
most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious,
it is the source of all true art and science". Albert
Einstein
"We cando no great things----only small things with great
love". Mother Teresa
"Grief
can take care of itself; but to get the full value of joy you must have
somebody to divide it with". Mark Twain
"Religion
consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes, and
wishes he was certain." Mark Twain
"In a
time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
Seen on bumper stickers, worthy of remembering:
"The
truly educated never graduate"
"Question
assumptions"
"You
nonconformists are all alike."
All quotes posted 2/12/2000 from Ron Levitan
POSTED
If
you aren't happy with what you have,
you probably won't be happy with what you get.
If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery.
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, enjoy your work.
"Don't
let yesterday use up to much of today."
Cherokee proverb from Wiloni White Feather
POSTED
"Some
men see things as they are and say, 'why?'
I dream things that never were and say, 'why not?"
Robert F. Kennedy from Ron Levitan
POSTED
December 31, 1999
"Hope
is a memory of the future."
Gabriel Marcel
POSTED
December 24, 1999
"Its never as bad as it seems, or as good."
Food
for thought, especially for parents: When Mark Twain was 14
years old he was convinced that his parents were stupid. When he turned 21 he
was amazed at how much they had learned in just 7 years.
"EXPECT THE
UNEXPECTED"
4
above from
"Life
is what happens while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon
POSTED
October 7, 1999
I
am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
"I Am The Walrus" The Beatles
When
I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said, on his deathbed,
that he had had a lot of trouble his life
....most of which had never happened.
Winston Churchill
The
world we have created today has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the
way we thought when we created them.
Albert Einstein
We
always did feel the same; we just saw it from a different point of view.
"Tangled Up in Blue"
Four
above from Scott Holmes
POSTED
October 3, 1999
"What
do you call a biker with 'No Fear'.... An ambulance."
POSTED
October 2, 1999
"There
is no future inbeing right when the boss is wrong"
POSTED
September 7, 1999
A
lack of planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an emergency on my
part. (Source unknown.)
Know
you're right, then do it! DavyCrockett
From Steve Zweigart
POSTED
August 6, 1999
It
is better to try and fail....than to fail to try.
From Michael Pascua
POSTED
July 29, 1999
Don't
Ruin Today, by worrying about Tomorrow. from
POSTED
July 2, 1999
In
Life as in motorcycling, a turn in the road is not the end of the road....
POSTED
June 26,1999
but none of us is as capable as all of us!! "Ziggy"
POSTED
June 11, 1999
SLOW DANCE
Or listened to the rain
Ever followed a butterfly's erraticflight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down
on the fly
When the day is done,
With the next hundred chores
You'd better slow down
Ever lost touch,
You'd better slow down
It is like an unopened gift... thrown away...
Life is not a race.
"While you shouldn't
consider yourself better than anyone else,
you
should consider your self second to none."
POSTED
May 31, 1999
"A
Panicky present is the product of a PLANLESS Past!!!!"
POSTED
May 9, 1999
"Married
men live longer than single men...
but married men are more willing to die!" from
"One
is not lost until one comes to believe, as many do, that corruption is
normality instead of abnormality."
-Madame
Chiang Kai-Shek - wife of former leader of the
Kuomintang Party of pre-Revolutionary
"If
the past has taught us any thing, it is that every cause brings its effect,
every action has a consequence. This thought, in my opinion, is the moral
foundation of the universe; it applies equally in this world and the next.
POSTED
April 3, 1999
Of
all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.
POSTED
April 2, 1999
Character
is what you are in the dark. E. McRauch
.....'Cause being exactly what you want, and winning are just the
same......
POSTED
November 16, 1998
Life
is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a
surprise party. Jimmy Buffett
POSTED
March 2, 1999
I
once had no shoes and complained....
until I met a man with no feet.
sort of a
timeless thought!
POSTED
November 22, 1998
"Mountains
should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should
determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you
become winded, slowdown. You climb the mountain in an
equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no
longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique
event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this
place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should
notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of
the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. But of
course, without the top you can't have any sides. It's the top that defines the
sides. So on we go...we have along way...no hurry...just one step after the
next..."
POSTED
August 29, 1998
Ride
fast if you must-but don't ride in a hurry!
POSTED
August 14, 1998
There's
enough WAYS for everybody to have one.........Tim Perry
The
squeaking wheel may get to grease,
but it is the quacking duck that gets shot.
POSTED
July 9, 1998
Security
is mostly a superstition.
To
keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
POSTED
June 25, 1998
Engraved
on a tombstone: "Given enough time, I can do anything"--Jim Stover
POSTED
May 21, 1998
"It's
what you learn after you know it all that counts."---Earl Weaver
POSTED
May 3, 1998
"Yesterday
is history, tomorrow yet a mystery, today is the gift.
"Life
is a garden always in bloom. Always in harvest, in every
moment.
"The
flowers and the trees grow on the sides of the mountain - not the top!"
POSTED
April 12, 1998
Ask
for the ancient paths where the good way is;
and walk in it and find rest for your souls.
In ancient times, a king had a boulder
placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would
remove the huge rock. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers
came by and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the king for not
keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the big stone out
of the way. Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. On
approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the
stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally
succeeded. As the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse
lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold
coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person who
removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many others
never understand.
When
we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight
nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our
descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that
a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have
touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought
substance of them ,"see! This our father did for us." John Ruskin
This
is the meaning of life.
POSTED
March 22, 1998
than to open it and remove all doubt." Abe Lincoln
POSTED
February 17, 1998
"Be careful of the words you speak, keep them
soft and sweet, you never know from day to day which ones you'll have to
eat"
From memories of my Aunt Helen
POSTED
"Early bird gets
the worm..... but it's the second mouse that gets the
cheese."
"Presumption is our natural and original disease. The most wretched and
frail of all creatures is man, and withal the proudest. He feels and sees
himself lodged here in the dirt and filth of the world, nailed and riveted to
the worst and deadest part of the universe, in the lowest story of the house,
trapped worse than bird or fish, and yet in his imagination he places himself
above the circle of the moon, bringing heaven under his feet. By the vanity of
the same imagination he equals himself to God, attributes to himself divine
faculties, and withdraws and separates himself from all other creatures; heal
lots to these, his fellows and companions, the portion of faculties and power
which he himself thinks fit. How does he know, by the strength of his
understanding, the secret and internal motions of animals, and from what
comparison between them and us does he conclude the stupidity he attributes to
them?"
-Montainge, "The Defense of Raymond Sebond"
POSTED
"Pleasant memories are arranged for, in
advance."
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the
exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. His preeminence over them lies
simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character
of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic and intellectual. Had his whole life
not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself
so inexpugnably in the necessary. And from the consciousness of this, he should
draw the lesson that his wants are to be trusted, that even when their
gratification seems furthest off, the uneasiness they occasion is still the
best guide of his life, and will lead him to issues entirely beyond his present
powers of reckoning. Prune down his extravagances, sober him, and you undo him.
William James
POSTED
October 17, 1997
The untrue never is,
the True never isn't.
Krishna
POSTED
September 29, 1997
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of
attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important
than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures,
than successes, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company....a
church....or a home. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice everyday
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 one
string we have, and that is our attitude....I am convinced that life is 10%
what happens to me and 90% how I interpret and react to it.
Chuck Swindol
Good friend of mine found this quote with the letter his mother had written him
from what turned out to be her death bed.
POSTED
Life shrinks
or expands in proportion to one's courage. - A. Nin
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. -R.
Savage
POSTED
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed.....they must be
interrupted.
J. P. Richter
POSTED
Experience
is what you get when you don't get what you want!
POSTED July 16, 1997
"As you
look back on your life, you will find that you seldom experience regret for
anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you.
The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the
present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in self-defeating
ways means you've lost them forever."
Dr. Wayne Dyer
POSTED
Experience
is learning to make new kinds of mistakes .
Hemant Sawant
POSTED
If Harley Davidson built airplanes....would you
fly in one?
Over heard around the fire at a 'motorcycle only'
campground
POSTED
variation to the old question, "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is
there to hear it, does it make a sound?"......
. "If a
man speaks in the woods and no woman is there to hear him.... is he still
wrong?"
Jeff P.
POSTED
The biggest mistake is the fear that you will make one.
POSTED
The school systems in
from the Commencement speech
given by folk singer John McClutchin at Warren Wilson
College on May 17, 1997
Larry's favorites:
If you are so busy doing nothing, how
will you know when you are finished?
If you do not reward your children when you say you will or keep your word to
punish when you say you will, then why should your child believe you are
telling the truth when you finally say "I love you"?
Remember when people are talking about the grass being greener on the other
side, to them you are on the other side.
People forget your deeds as new ones are done, but a child will remember you
all his/her life for the good that is learned from you.
I do so love to ride my bike on the Parkway and then return home
to park on the driveway.
POSTED
Success is a
source unknown
POSTED
If
one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in the
common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Time spent riding a motorcycle is NOT subtracted from
one's life span.
Unknown author.
I found these two especially interesting because they arrived within a few days
of one another.
A man without a plan is like a ship without a rudder.
Do you know how to make God laugh? Make a plan .
"The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary"
-Vidal Sassoon
"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you always get to the
other end in an awful hurry" - John Jensen
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time" - Steven Wright
Posted
March 18, 1997
Be careful of what you want.... You just might get it.
Don't take yourself too seriously. The cemetery is full of people who thought
the world couldn't get along without them.
Origin unknown
other than hearing it from a wise farmer.
Never ride faster than your angel can fly.
Received
February 25, 1997
"To Venture is to risk one's life. Not to venture
is to lose one's life." Source unknown
"Create
in me a clean heart daily, renew a right spirit in me always."
adapted from a bible verse
Received
February 17, 1997
"Each one of us is setting an example for some
one else, and each one of us has a responsibility to shape the future as we
wish it to be."
Gandhi
Received
Don't know where I'm going....but I'm sure not lost.
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
Author unknown
Received
December 19, 1996:
Dream big....Dare to fail. What
Posted
December 31, 1996
We are not here for a long time.....We are here for a
GOOD time.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in
that gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
T. Roosevelt
Send your favorite Attitude Adjusters to Gary at: smma@mindspring.com
doesn't know any
women. -- Unknown
Than he
knows. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ballance's Law: How
long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. --
Oscar Wilde
To ram it
down their throats. -- Howard Aiken
movie,"Tremors"
Education is that which remains when one has forgotten
everything learned in school.
-- Albert Einstein
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your
Temper or
your self-confidence. -- Robert Frost
Everyone is born a genius but the process of living
de-geniuses them. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Lesson
afterward. -- (Pitcher) Vernon Law
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes
from bad
judgment. -- Barry LePatmer
need. -- Admiral Richard E.Byrd
He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettebone Poole
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in
hospitals dying of
nothing.-- Redd Foxx
Hlade's Law: If
you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man -- he will
Find an easier way to do it.
Honor is like a rugged island without a shore; once you have
left it, you
Cannot
return. -- Nicolas Poileau
I don't know the key
to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody.-- Bill Cosby
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
-- Woodrow
Wilson
I've never been drunk, but often I've been over-served. --
George Gobel
If I had known I was going to live this long I would have
taken better care
Of
myself. -- Unknown
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every
problem as a nail. -- Abraham Maslow.
Eaglescoach, Buddy Ryan
If you don't know where you're going, any path will take you
there. --
TheodoreLevitt
If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because
very few people die past the age of a hundred. -- George Burns
explicable.-- H.L. Mencken
In matters of principle, stand like a rock, in matters of
taste, swim with
The
current. -- Thomas Jefferson
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have
always been times
Like these. -- Paul Harvey
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
-- William G.
McAdoo
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a
day-to-day basis. --
Margaret Bonnano
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. --
Voltaire
Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking
creates
profoundness,
kindness in giving creates love. -- Lao-Tzu
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the
instrument as one
Goes on. --
Samuel Butler
Life is to be enjoyed and if it is not, it makes people ill
in one way or
another.-- Louise Bogan
Men who never get carried away should be. -- Malcolm Forbes
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a
rainy Sunday
afternoon-- Susan Ertz
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. -- Larry Gelbart
Harper
One of the greatest victories you can gain over a man is to
beat him at
politeness.-- Josh Billings
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
unhappiness.-- Spalding Gray
Segal's Law: A man with one watch knows what time it is. A
man with two
Watches
is never sure.
The Cardinal Conundrum: An optimist believes we live in the
best of all
Possible
worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to leap a chasm in
two steps. --
David Lloyd George
The real great man is the one who makes every man feel
great. -- G.K.
Chesterton
cowardice.-- Mark Twain
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at
once. --
Unknown
To be without some of the things you want is an
indispensable part of
happiness.-- Bertrand Russell
Wise sayings sometimes fall on barren ground; but a kind
word is never
Thrown
away. -- Sir Arthur Aelps
Worry is
interest paid on trouble before it falls due. -- W.R. Inge