Category: WIT & WISDOM

Monday's Musings – Kindness

There’s a new meme in town.
My good friend Barbara would love to see you and have you join in.
She’s made buttons to choose from.
So head on Over to Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers to join the fun.

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson*


*(pg 25) Highlighted in Yellow A short course in living wisely and choosing well by H. Jackson Brown Jr., author of Life’s Little Instruction Book and Rochelle Pennington

Monday's Musings ~ Kindness

There’s a new meme in town.
My good friend Barbara would love to see you and have you join in.
She made my header and this great button to match.
She’s made more buttons to choose from.
So head on Over to Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers to join the fun.

Remember the nicest thing you can do for yourself is to do something nice for someone else.
~George Burns*


*(pg 15) Highlighted in Yellow A short course in living wisely and choosing well by H. Jackson Brown Jr., author of Life’s Little Instruction Book and Rochelle Pennington

Monday's Musings ~ Kindness

There’s a new meme in town.
My good friend Barbara would love to see you and have you join in.
She’s made buttons to choose from.
So head on Over to Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers to join the fun.

Never underestimate the power of a kind word or deed. It takes so little to make people happy – just a touch, if we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, or a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a human soul.
~Frank Crane*


*(pg 8) Highlighted in Yellow A short course in living wisely and choosing well by H. Jackson Brown Jr., author of Life’s Little Instruction Book and Rochelle Pennington

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

I saw this on the chalkboard of a roadside cafe this morning as we began our journey and thought it was so funny that I had to share.

DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE THE WORLD
IS A CAR WASH AND
YOU’RE RIDING THROUGH
IT ON A BICYCLE?

Monday's Musings ~ Kindness

My good friend Barbara gave me a spring makeover last night when she made my new header and then surprised me with this great button to match. So my first few quotes for this meme will be about kindness in hopes of reminding us all how important it is to have kindness in our life and to give kindness to others.

There’s a new meme in town.
She would love to see you there and have you join in.
She’s made many more fun buttons for you to choose from.
So, head on over to
Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers
to join the fun.

Make it a habit to do nice things for people who’ll never find out. That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
~William Wordsworth*

*(pg5) Highlighted in Yellow A short course in living wisely and choosing well by H. Jackson Brown Jr., author of Life’s Little Instruction Book and Rochelle Pennington

Food for thought

I don’t know where it originated, but one of my dad’s favorite sayings was,
“You cannot have a battle of wits with an unarmed person”.
Always makes me think and try to stay informed.

Hump Day Humor ~ Teachers

This meme is hosted by Mercedes at Mercedes Rocks

Theme for Hump Day Humor – Teachers

Next weeks theme – PETS

Hopefully this doesn’t offend anyone.

First-year students at Texas A&M’s Vet school were receiving their first anatomy class, with a real dead cow. They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet.

The professor started the class by telling them, In Veterinary Medicine it is necessary to have two important qualities as a doctor:

The first is that you not be disgusted by anything involving the animal body.

For an example, the Professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the dead cow, withdrew it and stuck it in his mouth. Go ahead and do the same thing, he told his students.

The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes. But eventually took turns sticking a finger in the butt of the dead cow and sucking on it.

When everyone finished, the Professor looked at them and said, “The second most important qual ity is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and sucked on my index finger.”

Now learn to pay attention. Life’s tough, it’s even tougher if you’re stupid.

The Garbage Truck Rule

This is an email that came across my desk today and I thought the analogy was so well spelled out that I’d like to pass it on.

One day I hopped into a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. I mean he was really friendly. So I asked, “Why did you just do that? That guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.” He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.

Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so….. “Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don’t.”

Remember – Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!