Attitudes

A happy person is  not a person
in a  set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of  attitudes.

Hugh Downs

Conditions

Conditions are never just right.
People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

William Feather

New Year

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Irish toast

Wrong

“When things go wrong don’t go with them”

Elvis Presley

Change

“Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan,

not by accident.”

Philip Crosby (”Reflections on Quality”)

Argue

Many argue; not many converse.

Louisa May Alcott

War

War is not ‘the best way of settling differences’; it is the only way of
preventing their being settled for you.

G.K. Chesterton ILN, 7/24/15

Funny Quotes

No Shoes

… once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining
shoes. I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw
there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his
mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience …

Sa’di The Gulistan, 1258

Trust

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual
trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and
police.

Albert Einstein

Options

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

 Author Unknown