RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 31, 2012: “You will find as you look back upon your life..."

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

~Henry Drummond

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 30, 2012: "Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort..."

"Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: 
Concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention. 
Riding a motorcycle at 150 miles an hour and playing a competitive game of chess are certainly very effortful. 
In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand."

~Daniel Kahneman, Psychologist/Author
"Thinking, Fast and Slow"

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 29, 2012: "Here we are in the middle of a crisis and..."

"Here we are in the middle of a crisis and there's no cheesecake?!"

~Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 28, 2012: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels..."

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,

I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,

but have not love, I am nothing. 

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,

and have not charity (GR-Agape=to love like God loves), it profiteth me nothing.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Charity never faileth..."

~1 Corinthians 13:1-8

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 27, 2012: "We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong..."

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. 

The amount of work is the same." 

~Carlos Castaneda

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 26, 2012: “Condemn none: If you can stretch out a helping hand..."

“Condemn none: If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so.

If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

~Swami Vivekananda

Indian Spiritual leader of the Hindu religion-Vedanta

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 25, 2012: "Vegetarian: A person who..."

"Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes."

~Gerald Lieberman

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 24, 2012: “Pie is the American synonym of prosperity..."

“Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons.” 

~NY Times, 1902

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 23, 2012: "One advantage of bowling over golf is..."

"One advantage of bowling over golf is that you never lose a bowling ball."

~Ernie "Coach" Pantusso (Cheers)

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 22, 2012: “Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores???"

“Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? 

They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. 

In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. 

They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.”

~Bill Cosby

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 21, 2012: "Delicious autumn..."

"Delicious autumn! 

My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

~George Eliot

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 20, 2012: “Aim high..."

“Aim high, 
and you won't shoot your foot off.”

~Phyllis Diller

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 19, 2012: "Hide not your talents..."

"Hide not your talents.
They for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?"

~Benjamin Franklin

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 18, 2012: "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement..."

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. 

Properly understood and applied, 

it is the most potent instrument of action."

~Mahatma Gandhi

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 17, 2012: “Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance..."

“Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them?” 

~Jetta Carleton
The Moonflower Vine

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 12, 2012: "From our ancestors come our names..."

"From our ancestors come our names, 

but from our virtues our honors."

~Proverb

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 15, 2012: "Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's..."

"Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights,

one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal."

~Julia Child

"The Way to Cook"

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 14, 2012: “The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily..."

“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily 
do not rob the little violet of it’s scent 
nor the daisy of its simple charm. 

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, 

spring would lose its loveliness.”

~Therese of Lisieux

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 13, 2012: "Children, you are very little..."

"Children, you are very little, 

And your bones are very brittle; 

If you would grow great and stately, 

You must try to walk sedately."

~Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden of Verses, Number 27, 

'Good and Bad Children', Stanza 1

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 12, 2012: "The movies we love and admire are to some extent..."

"The movies we love and admire are to some extent 

a function of who we are when we see them."

~Mary Schmich

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 11, 2012: "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over..."

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, 

it became a butterfly and its life was beautiful once again."

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 10, 2012: "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years..."

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. 

 We grow old by deserting our ideals. 

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

~Samuel Ullman

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 9, 2012: "I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing..."

"I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing 
because it means I have a home.... 

I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing 
because it means my loved ones are nearby."

~Nancie J. Carmody

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 8, 2012: "Our whole life is..."

"Our whole life is solving puzzles."

~Erno Rubik

Inventor, Rubik's Cube

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 6, 2012: "No city should be too large for a man to..."

"No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning."

~Cyril Connolly

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 5, 2012: "Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit..."

There are two today; I share two because I think the second one explains the first one, and I agree with her. If all women had that strong man that could always be depended on, why wouldn't they want to stand beside him and support him?

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"Women's Lib? 
Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. 
I've been so liberated it hurts."

"My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. 

She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; 

she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer."

~Lucille Ball

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 4, 2012: "We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of..."

"We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. 

 We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. 

 Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us."

~Cary T. Grayson

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 3, 2012: “Smell brings to mind... a family dinner..."

“Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town.

Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.”

~Diane Ackerman

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 2, 2012: "Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one..."

"Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. 

They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust." 

~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings" 

U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 1, 2012: "Dogs come when called..."

"Dogs come when called.
Cats take a message and get back to you."

~Unknown