Contentment

Contentment in life comes not from being dealt a good hand but in playing a bad hand well.

Musings

It's better to be looked over than to be overlooked.

A day without sunshine is like night.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

Experience

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Trust

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Thinking Aloud

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.

If you find a job that you really love, you'll never have to work a day in your life.

The most wasted day of all is one in which you have not laughed.

Stress is like an ice cream cone-- you have to learn to lick it.

If you're gonna run with the big dogs, you've gotta get up off the porch.

Happiness Jump Start

Restartng your life happily everafter starts now!

Thinking Aloud...

Life is the sum of our sacrifices and the average of our successes.

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

Never resist a temporary inconvenience if it results in permanent improvement.

Before you can experience the miracle of a sunrise, you must first stand a while in the darkness.

Little Known Facts

Debra Winger was the voice of ET.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not down strairs.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.

Five Thoughts to Ponder

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

The difficult we handle first, the impossible takes a little longer.

Don't waste time grieving over past mistakes. Learn from them and move on.

Never give up on what you really want to do.

The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Thoughts to Ponder

Only dead fish swim with the stream.

Handle yourself with your head, handle others with your heart.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Happiness is not having what you want but in wanting what you have.

The Paradox of War-- from We Were Soldiers

[Moore and Geoghegan a prayer before leaving for Vietnam]

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Our Father in Heaven, before we go into battle, every soldier among us will approach you each in his own way. Our enemies too, according to their own understanding, will ask for protection and for victory. And so, we bow before your infinite wisdom. We offer our prayers as best we can. I pray you watch over the young Jack Geoghegan. That I lead into battle. You use me as your instrument in this awful hell of war to watch over them. Especially if they're men like this one beside me, deserving of a future in your blessing and goodwill. Amen.

2nd Lieutenant Jack Geoghegan: Amen.

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Oh, yes, and one more thing, dear Lord, about our enemies, ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to Hell. Amen.

From Lt. Colonel Hal Moore before going into battle

In the 7th cavalry, we've got a captain from the Ukraine; another from Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, Chinese, Blacks, Hispanics, Cherokee Indians. Jews and Gentiles. All Americans. Now here in the states, some of you in this unit may have experienced discrimination because of race or creed. But for you and me now, all that is gone. We're moving into the valley of the shadow of death, where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won't care what color he is, or by what name he calls God. They say we're leaving home. We're going to what home was always supposed to be. Now let us understand the situation. We are going into battle against a tough and determined enemy.

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.

More Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Time just outran me Big Daddy, it got there first!

Brick to Big Daddy about not being able to play football any longer.