A Pound of Thoughts

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

I just love it.  Why can’t we have comedy like this nowadays?

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD)

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Dick Cavett
US comedian & television host (1936 - )

How ’bout a little humor for the day?

I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.

–Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005), American stand-up comedian

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Calvin Coolidge
30th president of US (1872 - 1933)

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz
US (German-born) general & politician (1829 - 1906)

You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever ‘the old’ means for you.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

This couldn’t be more true.  This goes along with Scripture;  Paul said it this way:

I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

–I Corinthians 15:31

What does he mean by this?  Does he mean a physical death?  Well, of course not.  He means that he dies to himself daily.  He allows his wants, his needs, his desires, to become extinct.  He “sheds the old” daily.  Our habits, fears, anxieties, anger, etc. of the current day must “die” before the next day.  It’s a hard thing to do (God knows that I don’t do it), but it’s something that we as Christians must do if we are to be effective for God’s kingdom.

So before you get started today, make sure that you “put off the old man and put on the new”.  (It doesn’t necessarily have to apply to new Christians!)  God bless!

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Henry George
US economist (1839 - 1897)

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

Walt Whitman
US poet (1819 - 1892)

Quote of the Day:
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

–Elbert Green Hubbard