Keepers - A Depository for Snippets of Wisdom

[fluffy]

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than wqhat other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.

Charles R. Swindoll
Writer and Clergyman, b. 1934

[fluffy]

Never buy a cheap ladder.

My Dad.

[WhatThe]

Fluffy, what was the saying your mentor( you were an apprentice at the time) used ? Something about price and quality?
It was a good one anyway

[fluffy]

Fluffy, what was the saying your mentor( you were an apprentice at the time) used ? Something about price and quality?
It was a good one anyway

Oh yeah", that's a keeper too...

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is gone.

[Meema]

Poor planning on your part....does not make a "crisis" for me.

[V-Rated]

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pike (in memory of my wonderful step-dad Bill)

[normaM]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

[Bsuds]

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

- Plato

[strwbrrydvl]

Don't drink the kool aid.

[grammafreddy]

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand

[fluffy]

If you don't change direction you'll end up right where you're heading.
- Unknown

[CoffeeCanuck]

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him"
~Martin Luther King

"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

"Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple."
~David Keuck

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
~Maya Angelou

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
~Maya Angelou

[rideforever]

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is gone.

reminds of this one:
"under promise, over-achieve"

[rideforever]

"We've learned to fly the air as birds, to swim the seas as fish, yet we haven't learned to walk this earth as brothers and sisters"
Martin Luther King

Makes me wonder if our schools should try to teach the thing we seem to be lacking.

[SILENCE]

Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values. Dalai Lama