RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 29, 2012: "I'm a little Leapling, smart and fun..."

"I'm a little Leapling, smart and fun.

When I turn four, I'll really be one.

I'm a little  Leapling, with lots to do.

When I turn eight, I'll really be two.

I'm a little  Leapling, with lots to see.

When I turn twelve, I'll really be three.

I'm a Leap Day Baby, and so much more.

When I turn sixteen, I'll really be four."

~Raenell Dawn

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 28, 2012: "Certain activities, attitudes, foods and persons..."

"Certain activities, attitudes, foods and persons support the cultivation of an unconscious life. They draw us away from our center. They throw us off-balance. They deplete the soul." 

~Patricia Lynn Reilly

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 27, 2012: "The function of prayer is not to influence God..."

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, 
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." 

~Soren Kierkegaard

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 26, 2012: "It is not my business to think about myself..."

"It is not my business to think about myself. 

My business is to think about God. 

It is for God to think about me." 

~Simone Weil

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 25, 2012: "The greatest discovery of my generation is..."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." 

~William James

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 24, 2012: "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet..."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

~Khalil Gibran

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 23, 2012: "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered..."

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." 

~Bertie C. Forbes

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 22, 2012: "Love begins by taking care of the closest ones..."

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - 

the ones at home."

~Mother Teresa

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 19, 2012: “We go on in her room, where we like to set..."

“We go on in her room, where we like to set. I get up in the big chair and she get up on me and smile, bounce a little. 'Tell me bout the brown wrapping. And the present.' She so excited, she squirming. She has to jump off my lap, squirm a little to get it out. Then she crawl back up. That's her favorite story cause when I tell it, she get two presents. 

I take the brown wrapping from my Piggly Wiggly grocery bag and wrap up a little something, like piece a candy, inside. Then I use the white paper from my Cole's Drug Store bag and wrap another one just like it. She take it real serious, the unwrapping, letting me tell the story bout how it ain't the color a the wrapping that count, it's what we is inside.”

~Kathryn Stockett, The Help

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 18, 2012: "Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves..."

"Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year."

~David Allen

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 17, 2012: “Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it..."

“Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion.

We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile.

But it is a dangerous temptation.

Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.” 

~Owen D. Young, 1874-1962, American Lawyer and corporate executive, Chairman of General Electric

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 16, 2012: "A rose must remain with the sun and the rain..."

"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true."

~Ray Evans

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 15, 2012: "The world is a book..."

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

~Saint Augustine

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 14, 2012: "Beloved, let us love one another..."

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."

~1 John 4:7-11(KJV)

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 13, 2012: "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible..."

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

~Rene Descartes

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 12, 2012: "If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind..."

"If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger, it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher."

~Corrie Ten Boom

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 11, 2012: "Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift..."

"Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, 

that power to work is a blessing, 

that love of work is success."

~David O. McKoy

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 10, 2012: "What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable..."

"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable,

than that of Liberty and Learning, 

each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"

~James Madison, US President, 1751-1836

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 9, 2012: "Caring is more than just dropping off a casserole at a neighbor's house..."

"Caring is more than just dropping off a casserole at a neighbor's house." 

~Bridget Britz

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 8, 2012: "You won't have trouble if you are prepared for it..."

"You won't have trouble if you are prepared for it."


~Father Frog

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 7, 2012: "A friend is one who knows you..."

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

~Elbert Hubbard

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 6, 2012: "You feel the problem with your body..."

"You feel the problem with your body.

What you don't feel is the potential.

Stop focusing on the problem

...and focus on the potential!"

~Nathaniel Bronner, Jr.

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 5, 2012: "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline..."

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline;

the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

~Abraham Heschel, Polish born Jewish rabbi, 1907-1972

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 4, 2012: "If I'm on the (golf) course and lightning starts..."

"If I'm on the (golf) course and lightning starts,

I get inside fast.

If God wants to play through,

Let Him."

~Bob Hope

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 3, 2012: "If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation..."

"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."

~Charles M. Schulz

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 2, 2012: “The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge..."

“The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge; 

it is always simple and direct.”

~Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, 30th President of the US

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: February 1, 2012: "Our Creator would never have made such lovely days..."

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal"

~Nathaniel Hawthorne