a few quotes

not sure why... but i'm enjoying the quotes in my inbox quite a lot lately.
here are a few of my recent favorites, in no particular order. pardon the caps, i'm cutting and pasting! ;-)

- I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.  -John D. Rockefeller

~ Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. -Chinese Proverb

~ Indecision may or may not be my problem. -Jimmy Buffett {this is totally nick!}

~ I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. -Erma Bombeck

~ A happy family is but an earlier heaven. -George Bernard Shaw

~ Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. -Robert Louis Stevenson

~ Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.  -Thornton Wilder

~ Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while. -Simon Fowler.

~ If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. -Win Borden

~ In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. -Tom Bodett

~ The secret of health for both and mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. -Buddha

~ Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.  -Robert Heinlein

~ Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day
and every decade worth looking forward to.  -Greg Anderson

~ Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.  -Sophia Loren

~ Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. -Anthony Brandt

~ Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. -Unknown

~ I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. -Anna Quindlen
~ Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. {thinking i might need to frame this and put it up in my office at work.}

~ Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life. -Danzae Pace