a place to ponder

[tulips]

I really enjoy collecting inspirational quotes, please share yours, this one is from Martin Luther King Jr. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter" ....how true - have a inspirational day everybody.

 

[Connie]

One of my favorites: "It's not how many times you fall, but how many times you get up." --Vince Lombardi (I think)

 

[BOSS]

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter"

Exactly!

One of my daughters made me a poster, with family photo's and important quotes for Christmas, and this was the one that took the top spot on te poster.

 

[tulips]

from Bits and Pieces

"you can give without loving, but you can't love without giving."

 

[jeannieballerini]

Don't know who said this one....
It's not how many breaths we take in our lifetime...but the times that take our breath away..
jeannie

 

[tulips]

"To give real service, you must give something that cannot be bought or measured by money-AND THAT IS INTEGRITY" author unknown

 

[KC Iek]

Worry never robs tomorrow of it's sorrow; it only saps today of its' joy. -Leo Buscaglia

 

[Gigi]

I have carried this around with me in notebooks and in my wallet since my Mother shared it with me in grade school

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind
stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.
- Henri Fabre

 

[FlowerShopSolutions]

"the team who scores the most points wins!"

--John Madden stating the obvious

 

[tulips]

ponder this

Here's the best quote I've heard today, when "Gift Tree" the og called us today to try to give us an order and we said we no longer take 800flower orders..... She said..."SMART MOVE" .....very interesting.

 

[Victoria]

"Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I'll remember. Involve me, I'll understand."

V

 

[Doug Hatcher]

A whole year of things like this for 2007

Taken from the Toronto Lodge A.M.O.R.C. calendar for 2007 December

" The thought mainfests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into habit; and habit hardens into character.

So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concerns for all things."

Gautama Buddha

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

....

NEVER say anything badly of ANYBODY that will listen!!