Quotes of the week
“…And to use the politics of fear and division and hate on each other — we are at a point right now where it doesn’t make a damn whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican if you’ve forgotten you’re an American.”
Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican Senate leader from Wyoming and co-chairman of the new 18-member National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.
~Proverb, (Spanish)~
“We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them”
Cato the Elder
Cato the Elder
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
Meditation of the week
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body. . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
--Elbert Hubbard
Growing up, we learned there were many places to make wishes: the first star, a well, candles on a birthday cake. We saw Dorothy return from Oz after she wished she were back home. Fairy tales taught us wishes can come true.
We don't have to stop wishing, even though many of our wishes never came true. We may have wished for the impossible when we said "I wish things would get better at home." But we may have gotten our way when we said, "I wish this pain would end." Our dreams came true with the program.
Our best wishes can be about ourselves and the lives we want to have. We can wish for riches and find friends with hearts of gold. We can wish for comfort and health, and get a night of uninterrupted sleep. Whatever we wish for, we can receive.
--Elbert Hubbard
Growing up, we learned there were many places to make wishes: the first star, a well, candles on a birthday cake. We saw Dorothy return from Oz after she wished she were back home. Fairy tales taught us wishes can come true.
We don't have to stop wishing, even though many of our wishes never came true. We may have wished for the impossible when we said "I wish things would get better at home." But we may have gotten our way when we said, "I wish this pain would end." Our dreams came true with the program.
Our best wishes can be about ourselves and the lives we want to have. We can wish for riches and find friends with hearts of gold. We can wish for comfort and health, and get a night of uninterrupted sleep. Whatever we wish for, we can receive.
Author of the Week
It's the birthday of humorist Erma Bombeck, (books by this author) born in Dayton, Ohio (1927). She wrote a regular newspaper column called "At Wit's End" for a small suburban newspaper, beginning in 1964, covering what she called the "utility-room beat." She kept it up until 1994, and eventually her column became so popular that it was syndicated in more than 600 newspapers. She wrote numerous books, including collections of her syndicated columns, and her novel The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (1976) was one of the top-selling books of the year, and from then on, all of her books were best sellers.
She said, "God created man, but I could do better."
More here http://www.ermamuseum.org
Best of Craig’s List of the week
Ancient wisdom of the week
Websites of the week
ROBWANTSONERIGHTNOW! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LvwYUnSoQo
