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  • Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.  ~Flavia Weedn, Forever, © Flavia.com

  • The Cowboy Prayer:  May yer horse never stumble. May yer spurs never rust. May yer guts ever grumble May yer cinch never bust. May yer boots never pinch ya   May yer crops never fail. While ya eats lots of beans,  May ya stay outta jail.

  • Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ..they're just friends waiting to be made.  Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

  • Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. Og Mandino

  • Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.  Jacob M. Braude

  • Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.   R.E. Shay

  • Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.  George Bernard Shaw

  • He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house.  Danish Proverb

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  • Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.  -- Og Mandino

  • Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Og Mandino

  • After looking at my bill for my operation, I understand why doctors wear masks in the operating room.  Author unknown  - But I found it rather funny!!

  • Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.  Luke 6:37

  • Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.  Og Mandino

  • Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.

  • You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.  Joe Dimaggio,

  • It is more blessed to give than receive.  Acts 20:30

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  • Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.   William Jennings Bryan
  • It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.  Winston Churchill
  • Now I don't know what will happen to me. My fortune cookie contradicted my horoscope!  Unknown
  • You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it. Bill Cosby
  • People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. - Rogers Hornsby   (That sounds like Rod!!!)
  • We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more and talk the less.  Greek proverb
  • There can't be a crisis next week.  My schedule is already full! Henry Kissinger
  • Life is short, family is precious and true friends are too few.
  • "Stick to your guns if you believe in something no matter what cause it's better to be hated for who you are.  Than be loved for who you're not."    Van Zant  (from the song Help Somebody)
  • The best place to put your troubles is in your pocket - you know, the one with the hole in it
  • Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
  • Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.  It's already tomorrow in Australia.   Charles Schultz
  • It pays to worry.  Ninety percent of the things I worry about never happen.  Worry keeps them away!!
  • The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm.  H.W. Arnold
  • Patience is a virtue.
  • Money comes and money goes; You can't be in it for the money; Oh, you got to satisfy your soul   Montgomery Gentry - For The Money
  • It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! The Horse Whisperer
  • Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.  Luke 6:37
  • "We can do 'er"  Scott Martin - Golf Cart Crash Test Dummy
  • To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness!  John Dewey
  • The difference between "Hero" and "Zero" is only 1 letter.  Mike Bishop
  • It is a mistake to look too far ahead.  Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.  Winston Churchill
  • The secret of health for both 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
  • Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
  • Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas;  they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.  Russell H. Conwell
  • Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
    Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
    John Howard Payne (1791 - 1852)
     
  • If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.  Anne Bradstreet
  • Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
  • Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely
  • Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
  • When I can't ride any more, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horse's graze, and watch them. -Monica Dickens-
  • A good way to make a small fortune in horses, is to spend a large one!  Charles Asher
  • Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.
  • It is more blessed to give than to receive.
  • Better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it.
  • A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
  • In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: People, Product, and Profits. People come first!
  • The only real equality is in the cemetery.
  • The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it!
  • A true friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
  • He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
  • To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
  • Many people think they have an open mind when it is really their mouth.
  • He who tastes every man's broth sometimes burns his mouth.
  • Opportunity knocks only once, but temptation bangs on the door for years!
  • The most expensive vehicle to operate, per mile, is the shopping cart!
  • The sign on the door of opportunity reads "Push."

  • Everyone else's life seems so interesting, when not a lot goes on in your own........

  • Every path has a puddle, sometimes it is fun to splash!

  • The skin you love to touch! Dad's old pigskin wallet!!

  • A smile is a light in the window of a face which shows that the heart is at home!

  • You cannot choose your calling.  Your calling chooses you. You have been   blessed with special skills that are yours alone. Use them, whatever they may be, and forget about wearing another's hat.  A talented chariot driver can win gold and renown with his skills.  Let him pick figs and he would starve.          Og Mandino

  • Being Mike, is when you know all the answers but no one asks you the questions!                 Rod Asher

  • The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.                  John F. Kennedy

  • You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough!   Joe E. Lewis

  • All art is imitation of nature.   Rod

  • As the sign says in our barn: The art of horsemanship is keeping the horse between you and the ground.

  • There is little difference in people.....the little difference is attitude.  The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.    Clement Stone

  • Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.  Comes into us at midnight very clean.  It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.  It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.  John Wayne

  • An optimist is one who believes that a fly is looking for a way to get out!

  • When it comes to getting a suntan, ignorance is blister.

  • It is a mistake to look too far ahead.  Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.  Winston Churchill

  •  A Horse's Prayer:Feed me, water and care for me, and when the day's work is done, provide me with a shelter, a clean dry stall large enough for me to lie down in comfort. Talk to me, your voice often means as much as the reins. Pet me sometime that I may serve you more gladly and learn to love you. Shoe me properly that I may serve you in comfort. Never strike, beat, or kick me when I don't understand you. And finally oh master, when my youthful strength is gone, do not turn me out to starve or freeze or sell me to some cruel owner to be slowly tortured or stoned to death, but do thou, my master, take my life in the kindest way, and your God will reward you here and hereafter. You will not consider me irreverent if I ask this in the name of Him who was born in a stable...Amen. -Unknown-      (Thanks for sending this one Amanda!!)

  • If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.   Edward W. Howe

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