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"It is important to distinguish...

...between genuine humility, which is a type of modesty, and a lack of confidence. They are not the...

Uploaded on Jan 28, 2012

‘I never met a man so ignorant...

... that I couldn’t learn something from him.' Galileo Galilei, Italy

Uploaded on Jan 27, 2012

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"A fellow who does things that count,

...doesn't usually stop to count them. " ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein Unedited, Christmas Day 2011.

Uploaded on Jan 25, 2012

"My grandfather once told me...

... that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to...

Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

"You can stand tall...

...without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." ~Harriet Woods

Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012

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Creatures afoot in South Florida....White Ibis Eudocimus alba

Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012

"In some families, please is described...

as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry." ~Margaret Laurence

Uploaded on Jan 22, 2012

"Bad times have a scientific value.

These are occasions a good learner would not miss." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Uploaded on Jan 21, 2012

"A happy person is not...

a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." ~Hugh Downs So keep looking up...

Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

"You shouldn't gloat...

about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do. " David...

Uploaded on Jan 19, 2012

"No sense being pessimistic.

It wouldn't work anyway." -- Bumper Sticker, in the Adult Only Joke Book More about how we think: www.16guidelines.org

Uploaded on Jan 15, 2012

"The true way to be humble...

... is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against...

Uploaded on Jan 14, 2012

"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."

~Maurice Setter A nest for the sun...

Uploaded on Jan 13, 2012

"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. "

~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok. Coming upon Pilot Mountain from the east.

Uploaded on Jan 12, 2012

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"I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as thought they were great and noble"

– Helen Keller, USA A drop of water, a leaf. Each a vital job to do.

Uploaded on Jan 11, 2012

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."

~Katherine Mansfield Reflections of attitude. After a lot of rain, somewhere between Illinois and North Carolina.

Uploaded on Jan 9, 2012

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"We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are."

-- Talmud All are beautiful at the golden hour... Perception : At sunset, even the...

Uploaded on Jan 7, 2012